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Two of the “Sins that cry to Heaven for Vengeance”, I.e. sins that are so serious you may ask God to kill the sinner, are underpaying or withholding wages from workers, even if both parties “consented” to an unfair wage; and just general oppression of the poor.
One of the other sins is sodomy, but I will cherry pick to ignore that because the other sins actually matter materially whereas this one is just being invasive for no reason lol.
It was also Catholics that explained and reaffirmed these sins as serious.
And it's somewhat clear from the Bible that the scenarios where it condemns sodomy it's actually talking about assault