Speke Baptist Church, which is based in Liverpool, registered under the charitable purpose 'the advancement of religion' in May. Charities are legally required to act for the public benefit.
In a sermon titled 'The world's biggest problem', Church pastor and charity trustee Stephen Casey says homosexuality is a "degrading perversion", adding "it's not natural, it's not decent and it's not normal".
The sermon was uploaded to YouTube in September but appears to be have delivered in person to an audience including children.
Casey says the media had carried out a "relentless campaign" over 25 years to "reject the biblical understanding of homosexuality".
He says there is "glaring anatomical evidence" that homosexuality is unnatural, and opposes the idea that "there's no sordidness that goes with it".
He says people "feel very crushed by this temptation" but the answer is not to say homosexuality is natural, decent or normal.
He says people "pretend it's not a sin" in order to deny the "emotional trauma" and "torturous effects" of pursuing such "sexual addictions".
Saying a sin is okay "doesn't remove the internal damage" it causes, he says. He says homosexuality is "so against nature", a form of "sexual brokenness" and an "addiction".
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