Gen Z has a hot new hangout spot.

Church.

And it's definitely not their parents making them go.

We always assume religion's going to continue to decline, and it doesn't look like that decline is continuing.

It shocked experts because it sort of upended everything that people thought they knew about American religion.

Gen Z is in its prodigal son era. That's this week Unexplained to me.

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In 1963, Newsday published an article about an organization that thought animals should be wearing clothes.

The headline was, decency counts.

The article included a sewing pattern, boxer shorts for dog and horse.

The pattern could also be used for cats, the writer noted, but with some minor adjustments.

Quote, just ruffle the bottom and use a fancy print material.

The New York Times wrote about this campaign, too, after people showed up and picketed in front of the White House.

They wanted the first lady, Jackie Kennedy, to put clothes on her horses.

Jean Abel was one of the picketers.

We called it Sinah, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.

Jean says that during the protest, she held up a sign that said,

Please put pants on macaroni. That was Caroline Kennedy's pony.

He'd been a gift from Lyndon B. Johnson.

Jean's husband, Alan Abel, was at the protest too.

Picketing in D.C. had been Jean and Allen's idea.

Actually, the whole thing had been their idea.

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