accommodationist
nounEtymology By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist.
1
Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
2
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).
- Related terms
- accommodationism, appeaser, compromiser, coexister, cultural Christian