If you pervert the course of justice, or are responsible for a perversion of justice, are you a pervert?
No.
The words have grown apart.

The hymn has it, "Perverse and foolish oft I strayed."
Are the whole congregation describing themselves as perverts?
No.

I do not think it helpful or appropriate to refer to homosexuality as a perversion, and it is regrettable that Akenaton does.
Why not just refer to that?
Why go a step further and pretend he has also called gay people perverts when it is just not true?