On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Matt Barber asserted that gay people have a higher rate of suicide because they know in their heart that they are rebelling against God.

Pointing to a study that reportedly found that “homosexuals who ‘marry’ each other are almost three times more likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual counterparts,” Barber said that “the wages of sin is death” and so it should not be a surprise that gay people eventually break under the pressure of their own sinful behavior.

“There’s a biblical explanation,” Barber said. “Scripture says the wages of sin is death and folks who are engaged in the homosexual lifestyle, even if they rationalize and kid themselves and enter into a pretend marriage kind of situation, something that looks like a marriage between two men or two women, they know inherently in their heart it’s not marriage; it can’t be because it’s missing the requisite binary male-female relationship that defines marriage.”

“The sin that they’re engaged in, they’re engaged in disordered behavior that is in violation of God’s natural law, His natural order, and His moral law and His moral order,” he said. “That weighs heavy on the heart that has the truths of God and the truths of His natural law and moral law written on their hearts. So they know inherently, intuitively that they are engaged in immoral, sinful behavior, notwithstanding the fact that they try to convince themselves otherwise and so we shouldn’t be surprised that they finally, many of them ultimately end up breaking under the pressure of that self guilt, knowing that they’re engaged in sinful behavior.”