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accommodationist
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ac·com·mo·da·tion·ist  (-km-dsh-nst)
n.
One that compromises with or adapts to the viewpoint of the opposition: a factional split between the hard-liners and the accomodationists.

ac·commo·dation·ist adj.


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It seems to me that the Religious Right folks and the accommodationists of the world do not understand this.
But because we now have Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama, many may have thought that the accommodationists have won this struggle.
This is also why those who support more institutional religious involvement in public policy (called accommodationists for want of a better word) tend to favor removing federal court jurisdiction over some church-state issues, hoping to shift resolution of the disputes to more conservative state legislatures.
 
 
 
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