Why Do People Hate Homosexuality So Much?

Isn’t it interesting how we categorize sin? For people today, especially Christians, there are certain sins that are far worse than others. You don’t have to ask many people to identify the sin that is most despicable in the eyes of evangelicals before you usually get a strong response. If you haven’t already guessed it, the unforgiveable, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad sin is homosexuality. So what is the basis for that belief? Do we think some sins are worse than others in God’s sight? Does God “rank” sin? Is there one sin that is more heinous than the others? If homosexuality in your eyes is the scarlet letter of wrong doings, you’re probably not going to like what you read next.

Brace yourself . . . here it goes.

You’re a sinner.
God hates sin.
Worse than that, God doesn’t rank sin.
It’s all sin to him.

And if you think your sins are somehow more palatable to God than someone else’s, you’re wrong. The truth is the same for you and the homosexual person you know - without Christ, your seemingly not-so-bad sins get you to the same place that their ugly, socially unacceptable sins get them… hell.

A huge black eye on the face of evangelicals is the fact that the divorce rate for Christians is the same as that of non-Christians. Some studies actually show a higher chance for Christians to get divorced than non-Christians. Yet, we love to overlook that fact and focus on other people’s sins. It’s human nature. We are selfish and live in a society that loves to look at other’s faults instead of our own.

Scripture addresses this in a lot of different ways. In Luke 6:41, Jesus questions why we focus on the faults in other’s lives when our own life is consumed with sin against God? Matthew 7:2 says that if we judge others, then God will use the same measuring stick to judge us. God actually states that he HATES divorce in Malachi 2:16.

I just picked divorce because it’s such a widespread problem among evangelicals, and picked homosexuality because it's such a hot button issue with many Christians today, but the same applies for every sin. Looking at pornography on the internet; being dishonest or unethical in business decisions; putting other things first in your life, over God; the lack of personal holiness; the list keeps going on and on. God doesn’t rank sins, and neither should we. The church has to remain firm in their call to repentance and faith, but must embrace the world with open-arms instead of judgmental hearts. Whenever you want to play the blame game, remember the response of Jesus in John 8:7 - If any one of you is without sin, then you can throw the first stone.