For this issue of the journal we asked four writers—two psychoanalysts (Donald Moss and David Schwartz), a culture critic (Michael Bronski), and a professor of religious studies (K. Roberts Skerrett)—to comment on the questions raised by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini in their book Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. We—a psychologist (Carolyn Stack) and a lawyer (Jennifer L. Kaplan)—invited discussants from disciplines that focus primarily on either the psychological aspects of experience or on the body-politic. Our hope was to engage the respondents and the authors of Love the Sin in a dialogue about the highly freighted psychological and sociopolitical topics of sex, religion, and the regulation of both in public, private, and intrapsychic life. We take for granted