When we refer to “homosexual persons” we do not mean situational homosexuality. This refers to homosexual practices under certain conditions, for example when people are isolated for long times in prison or at sea, or to experiment sex, or to practices that derive from a traumatic experience or physical disorder. “True” homosexuality is characterized by an emotional and physico-sexual propensity towards others of the same sex. It refers not only to the sexual act, but also to a way of thinking, feeling and behavior as an expression of love. Therefore, homosexual persons find expression in specific sexual acts. The biblical documents did not know of this homosexuality and its specific problems, but were concerned only with the commission of homosexual acts.
Lilly Nortje-Meyer, “The Homosexual Body without Apology: A Positive Link between the Canaanite Woman in Matthew 15:21-28 and Homosexual Interpretation of Biblical Texts,” Religion and Theology 9/1&2 (2002), 118-119.
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