Essay On Sexual Identity

Hannon postulates the words that force people into one camp or another on the front of sexual identity, homosexuality or heterosexuality, will shortly fall from use in contemporary society, and that this is a desired action. He claims that with the eradication of these two forms of ideologies, homosexuals will no longer be bound to their sin and heterosexuals will no longer be blinded to their sin. Rather, both groups will be able to identify their sexual deviancy in light of Jesus Christ and what he proclaims, instead of through their misconstrued views of societal norms. Hannon also states that we are not our transgressions, and so therefore it is we should not create identities for ourselves using sin as the standard. These misconstrued social labels will begin to fall presently due to having nearly exhausted its political utility and the fact that “the hetero/homo categories cannot logically ground the sexual norms they
While Hannon argues that these labels negatively impact us, I do not find that to be true. We are who we are in part because of the labels that we place on ourselves, and oftentimes, these labels encourage us to be ourselves and to live boldly as the people we are created to be. For instance, I place on myself the label of introvert—this label allows to me boldly proclaim this fact. Without this label, I could potentially feel ashamed of who I am, and long to hide that from the world. These labels grant us freedom by allowing us to find a place where we belong and then granting us the permission to live boldly. The labels we place on sexual identity work in much the same way—they provide people with a sense of assurance that they are who they were created to be, and therefore there is nothing intrinsically wrong about them that they should be ashamed