The 2012 campaign urging Latter-day Saint women to wear pants to church was always about more than Sunday dress.
Ultimately, it was a symbolic act in the drive toward gender equality in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
After all, men still wore the pants — literally as well as metaphorically — in the hierarchy.
Now, some six years after Wear Pants to Church Day, the Utah-based faith has made significant strides toward female empowerment — putting more women on leadership boards, boosting their visibility at General Conferences, allowing female missionaries to don dress slacks, and, especially, implementing the latest temple changes, equalizing the covenants made to God by men and women.