Liberal Democracy and Publicly Accessible Reasons -- Premises of Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion -- The Relevance of Religious Convictions for Political Choice -- Publicly Accessible Grounds of Decision and Religious Convictions -- Political Choices and Religious Convictions -- Inappropriate Grounds of Restriction: Consenting Sexual Acts as Sins -- Borderlines of Status I: Animal Rights and Environmental Policy -- Borderlines of Status II: Abortion -- Borderlines of Status III: Religious Convictions and the Limits of Publicly Accessible Reasons -- Moral Standards, Evaluative Comparisons, and Facts: Welfare Assistance and Other Issues -- Church-State Problems -- Religious Bases That Conflict with Common Forms of Reasoning -- Dialogue, Official Action, and Constitutionality -- Appropriate Political Discourse in a Liberal Society -- Religious Convictions and Official Action -- The Boundaries of Unconstitutionality.