Fifteen Reasons that Homosexuality is More Depraved than is Abortion

 I've often heard people say over the years that abortion is worse than homosexuality. Most people who have made this claim, I'm convinced, are either ignorant of Scripture and church history or have seriously given themselves to the culture over these issues. Now, both of these issues, I think, are wicked and arguably two of the greatest sins of our time. Nevertheless, there are several reasons that homosexuality is biblically, scientifically, and logically more depraved than even the atrocity of abortion. 

1. As vile as murder is, homosexuality is described as unnatural in Romans 1, a description never given to murder in Scripture. 

2. There are murderers in Scripture who are still among the elect. David is an example (he killed Uriah and then took Bathsheba as his wife). There are no cases in Scripture of any elect person being homosexual. 

3. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for the sin of their pride, affiliated in the text with their natural lust. There is no example in Scripture of God destroying a city only for murder. 

4. Homosexuality is not only a misuse of sexual activity but a complete distortion of sex as God has designed it. It is contrary to the institution of marriage, which can only be between a man and a woman. While murder destroys those created in God's image (Genesis 2), being no light act, homosexuality is a distortion of not only the creation but of the love shared between Jesus and the church (Ephesians 5). 

5. Murder first occurs in Scripture in Genesis 4 when Cain, out of jealousy, kills his brother. Homosexuality, however, occurs even later (Genesis 19). The fact that homosexuality is not recorded until after the flood (and long after Cain and Abel) seems to suggest that even if it did exist before the worldwide flood, the more depraved man became, the more he became prone to homosexuality. In Genesis 3, Adam and Eve were guilty of the sins of disobedience, deception, coveting, and stealing by taking from a fruit that God forbade them to eat (in a sense, it could also be said that they killed their souls by this choice). Yet homosexuality existed neither with them nor with their children (insofar as Scripture describes) well into the days of Sodom, showing that it is a great sin indeed. 

6. Although the sin of murder, including abortion, has always been a depraved act against God, homosexuality brings a certain scandal in Christ's church. Pope Pius V, in 1568, called for the death sentence of Catholic priests who were homosexuals. Today, homosexuality brings scandal across many denominations, bringing confusion to the created order of men and women that God has made in his image by the world, driving others away to find identity in other things than the Creator himself. 

7. Homosexuality is greatly affiliated with pedophilia. Statistically, many homosexuals were once sexually abused. In this sense, too, homosexuality is worse than abortion, as it not only kills the physical person (as does abortion) but breeds sexual misconduct among a new generation of once children, raising them to perversion and preparing the world for new levels of depravity. 

8. Murder does not distort one's identity, though homosexuality does. Although no one wants to be murdered, being killed (or the thought of being killed) does not change one's sexual identity. Homosexuality, however, challenges the very nature of who God made us to be: men and women for his glory. It has led many children, youth, and even adults to be confused about what gender or sexual orientation they claim to be. 

9. Homosexuality affects more people than abortion. As evil as abortion is, the widespreadness of homosexuality is a greater threat to today's church than even abortion. Homosexuality has spread into congregations, schools, and many parts of life. Many Christians have come to falsely believe that homosexuality is less than abortion because ''it's not murder.'' However, it is murder and worse. It is the murder of souls, which is even worse than the act of killing another. It is an unnatural act that stirs God's anger. While not all homosexuals are pedophiles, statistically, homosexuals are more likely to be pedophiles than heterosexual people. 

10. Homosexuality leaves less Room for Redemption. Although both murder and homosexuality leave great consequences on those who engage in either sin, it is more likely that one will find a satisfactory life in Christ after the former than the latter (though we Christians should pray for the salvation of all). Although David killed Uriah and suffered for his sin through the death of his first son with Bathsheba, he came to have a marriage that honored God. Homosexuality, though, defiles many's bodies not just in the sense that fornication does (although all sexual sins do), but in the case of a homosexual man, it means he has given his sperm in an unnatural act to another man. While God can and will forgive the man if he repents, he carries a heavier burden of past bondage into a future marriage to a woman than the man who has killed another. 

11. Homosexuality does not value children. While some homosexuals may think they do value children, the very acts of homosexuality deny procreation (as neither two men having sexual relations or two women having sexual relations) can reproduce. In this sense, abortion is more depraved than other acts of abortion, as it denies new life---life unstained from the world. Nevertheless, abortion is only possible in light of a man and woman's union, and thus, that child, while denied the right to life, maybe offered eternal life. Homosexuality, though, naturally leads to the conclusion that sex is just for recreation and has no meaning in terms of life itself. If everyone only engaged in homosexual acts, then no children would be born, and humanity would disappear. Whether or not homosexuals wish to acknowledge this, their existence is because of men and women who have some natural affection for one another. 

12. Homosexuality distorts not only us as humans but who God is. Indeed, this great sin deprives us of the created order of a man and woman for each other, but even of Christ's love for the church. Since marriage is a picture of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5), only those who engage in heterosexual sex (and even that is limited to the marriage of one man and one woman) portray a picture of Christ and the church. 

13. Abortion Spreads more than homosexuality. As evil as abortion is, it is less likely that one mother murdering her child will cause another mother to do so to her own. Homosexuality, on the other hand, spreads like wildfire, so that one person misled to its destruction often leads causes others to go homosexual. Take sexual abuse, for example. In being sexually abused (as many homosexuals have been), some (though not all) homosexuals are inclined to do the same to others. One of the dangers of accepting homosexuality as morally acceptable is that it not only encourages people to take the road of destruction but opens the door to more and more sexual abuse and sexual misconduct. 

14. Homosexuality arguably destroys the soul more than any sin (save blasphemy against the Holy Spirit). Read Romans 1. Paul clearly sees homosexual acts and desires as contrary to God's laws and as being natural. Never once is murder described in such language, and while some acts of murder are more depraved than others (such as pre-mediated or abortion), even the most extreme cases still fall under murder and, thus, cannot be understood as depraved as homosexual acts and desires. 

15. Some Christians have attempted to make a distinction between homosexual orientation and homosexual acts. For some theologians, ''gay attraction'' is not sinful, though the acts are. In many ways, this can be a complicated issue to address, according to Scripture. Both the lust and acts of homosexuality, according to Romans 1, are sinful, but are some believers or unbelievers, as a result of the fall, confused about their sexual orientation without necessarily sinning? To me, it seems probable that a person may be confused about their ''gay attraction'' though such persons should seek prayer, the sacraments, and Scripture to help them see all sexual identity and activity through the lens of Christ. Even for the confused child who may not have sinned after being confused about his sexual/gender identity, his confusion is a result of the fall. Indeed, because of the fall, we do not always see the world from a heavenly perspective, whether or not we intentionally sin. 

What does this thought have to do with murder? Because I know that some people will likey bash this post on the grounds of it being against people struggling with ''gay attraction.'' They will claim that I think worse of the man or woman struggling with their sexual identity than he/she that takes another's life. However, my post is more directly concerned with those either acting on homosexuality or enticing others to become homosexual. In the great fallen world we live in, we are required to turn again and again to God to find the fullness of our humanity in his divinity. 

Part of the problem in today's society is that many Christian congregations are not disciplining people as they should be doing. Jesus said that if we hate another, then we are guilty of murder (1 John 3:15). Far too often, it has become common to condemn those with certain sins but not others. We can be sexually or violently immoral, however, whether or not we act on these desires. Those who are struggling with their sexual identity, I'm not necessarily comparing to those who murder, but I firmly agree with Paul that homosexual acts and homosexual lust are considered unnatural (ironically, all sin is natural to how God created us, showing that homoseuality is another level). In conclusion on this point, homosexuality, as described in Romans 1, is more depraved than murder, including abortion. 

                                                                            Final Thoughts: 

Scripture never uses the word ''abortion.'' However, to kill an unborn child is clearly an act of murder, as Jeremiah 1:5 teaches the existence of a child in the mother's womb (and not only after birth). Scripture never uses phrases like ''gay'' or ''LGBTQIA'', but Scripture refers to those who identify in the latter groups as ''homosexuals'' (see 1 Corinthians 6). Christians are not bound to refer to evils according to the world's terminology but according to what God has revealed in Scripture. In order to address these great sins, we who follow Christ must also correct our shortcomings of Christ's righteousness.