only gave in once a fair amount of outside pressure was put on him.
Not something I really want to give Joshua a lot of credit for.
I should point out something that people here probably know in the backs of their heads, but which none dare blurt out loud... people
now are in large part idiots. The majority now just possess different triggers for their fanaticism or ganging-up/mobbing tendencies. Cries of witchcraft don't do it anymore, because that's been thorouhly discredited. It's a pop cliche now, going on a witch-hunt. It's synonymous with unfairness. McCarthyism along with it, fortunately.
The triggers are less easy to characterize in words, now, but maybe someone in the 22nd century will do it, looking back at the 21st. Islam=terrorism, that's an easy one. US=Great Satan, too. Mobbing against not only gays but anyone not seen as 'macho' enough, or whatever the fashionable word is now, for that, especially in school. Liberal=depraved.