St John Chrysostom denounces homosexual acts as being contrary to nature. Commenting on the Epistle to the Roman (1:26-27), he says that the pleasures …More
St John Chrysostom denounces homosexual acts as being contrary to nature. Commenting on the Epistle to the Roman (1:26-27), he says that the pleasures of sodomy are an unpardonable offense to nature and are doubly destructive, since they threaten the species by deviating the sexual organs away from their primary procreative end and they sow disharmony between men and women, who no longer are inclined by physical desire to live together in peace.....he goes on saying,.. "Therefore, not only are their passions [of homosexuals] satanic, but their lives are diabolic..... So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body....There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity." (St. John Chrysostom, In Epistulam ad Romanos IV, in J. McNeill, op. cit., pp. 88-90)