And people say Boycotts don't work "Chick-fil-A Ceases Anti-gay Donations, Clarifies Stance on Gay Customers & Employees "

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Zappykins said:

sperrico87 said:
Sometimes boycotts or extreme outside pressure leads to terrible things happening, like polygamists being forced into hiding where instead of being assimilated into our culture they're forced into isolated communities where predators rape and oppress women. If the Mormon church had never buckled to outside pressure, the monogamists would have eventually gotten over their bias and learned to live with other people being polygamist so long as there was no coercion or incest.

I'm not quite sure what you are talking about.  Do you mean when the Mormon Church gave up polygamy so Utah could become a state?

Or something else?

In 1890 and 1904 when they turned their back on almost half of their congregation and said definitively that they wanted nothing to do with polygamy because it had become such a big problem with the national papers and politicians.  They gave in to outside pressure and it wasn't necessary.  Eventually people would have gotten over their bias about polygamy, but the Church caved just to save their image.