Abstract
A few years ago, Susan Moller Okin introduced what turned out to be an extremely controversial and provocative question that dominated the dis cussion on the relationship between women's rights and culture and re ligion for years to come—is multiculturalism bad for women?2 In this article, I want to analyze the related and no less important question—is the relationship between religion and the state in liberal democracies bad for women? Perhaps contrary to popular assumptions, I will argue that the relationship between patriarchal religion and the state in liberal de mocracies adversely affects the rights of all women, and that liberal states cannot live up to their commitment to women's equality without significantly changing their relations with patriarchal religions.3
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