instransigent

"A government that had appeared to be amenable to discussion and persuasion has become arrogant, instransigent," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

So called “liberals” are trying to deal with the shift away from religion (secularism) and the changing demographics of our society (old WASP Toronto has vanished, for example) by saying that we have to find new ways of reaching people and accomodating those who have often been alienated by instransigent, dogmatic, inflexible churches, especially because this is the unfortunate public face of Christianity in North America, as portrayed in the media and in American politics.

Selected heresies from the Diocese of Niagara « Anglican Samizdat 2010