Abstract

Having evolved as an ethical top priority issue for the churches within less than a decade, yet »homosexuality« shares in its more recent treatment some of the older debate's perplexities. The lack of distinguishing theologically between »nature« and »creation« lies at the heart of a problematic focus on the question of the coming into being of homosexuality, as well as for a rather uncritical use of the notion of its »irreversibility« as a dogmatic starting point for further argument. lnstead a prior task in terms of ethical judgement yet hardly begun must be to do justice to the varity of personal witness of faith such as how people experience Iiberation, some towards the acceptance of their homosexual orientation and others as a process of change