What Kushner is saying is that identity that has been shaped by social norms and religious beliefs and similar strict rules, needs a reform. People are not meant to live under some norms imposed by people who don’t know them and who do not allow them to express themselves. No one should hide his or her true self regardless of what the society says. For Joe, a homosexually, Mormon Republican in a heterosexual marriage, his natural, gay identity has been repressed by his religious and political affiliations and convictions. In other words, Joe’s social image and religious convictions are in stark opposition to the self that God made him to be, according to Kushner. As Reynolds points it out, because his religious and political beliefs have an