Harvey Cox Quotes

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

Harvey Cox

• Political debate
• Religious conservatives
• Self-defeating

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• I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Political debate
  • Religious conservatives
  • Self-defeating