DaMoshe: “we don’t know which one is worse.”
You might not know which is worse. But we definitely know which is worse. Something that carries the death penalty is certainly worse than something that doesn’t carry the death penalty.
And as previously pointed out, a person who never engaged in homosexual conduct even if he had a taaiva to, has historically never been called or considered to be a homosexual. The contemporary reversal of this nomenclature only in the last few decades was a direct result of pressure by the homosexual lobby.