In today's liberal democracies, the principle of State secularity tends to be perceived as having been absorbed by equal religious freedom and religious neutrality of the State: Everybody has a guaranteed right to follow his/her convictions, and the State is limited to neutral rationality and must not adopt any positions based on particular comprehensive worldviews. Yet the possibility of isolating public political reasoning from deep convictions about the essence of being human is questionable. Thus, in a democracy, religions and other worldviews cannot be prevented from impacting political decisions. As an alternative, State secularity may be re-conceptualized by attaching it to the early modern virtue of tolerance and developing it into an institutional virtue: Beyond merely guaranteeing equal freedom of belief, secular democracy would thus aim at accommodating conflicting worldviews in political decision making as far as compatible with upholding equal rights for everybody.