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Accommodationist

Accommodationist meaning

Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one. | Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one. | Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).

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With lagging declining religiosity, churches often succumb to Christianity Lite, an accommodationist appeal to their rapidly secularizing and disinterested flock.

As recently as March of last year, Freedom Caucus members managed to sink the initial version of the American Health Care Act, Congress’s “fix” for Obamacare, on the good old-fashioned grounds that it was too accommodationist and too crony capitalist.

He returned to Philadelphia in March 1775, and abandoned his accommodationist stance.

Moton agreed, and following the accommodationist philosophy of Washington, he worked actively to conceal the information from the media.

Rabbi Blau was a native of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem and was active in the Agudat Israel during the British Mandate era. citation However, by the 1930s, the Aguda began to adopt a more compromising and accommodationist approach to the Zionist movement.