This will not be the usual post you find on this blog dedicated to Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. It’s going to talk critically about sexual perversion. But by the end you’ll recognize why it’s appropriate for this venue.

Annie Sprinkle is famous (or infamous) as a “performance artist” a “certified sexologist and advocate for sex work and healthcare … a sex educator, feminist stripper, pornographic actress, sex film producer and sex positive feminist” who “identifies as ecosexual,” as Wikipedia starts its article on her, which I don’t recommend reading (which is why I don’t link it here). For what it’s worth—which is nothing—she holds a Ph.D. “in Human Sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, an unaccredited, for-profit, degree-granting institution and resource center, in San Francisco (1996).”

Yesterday CNN celebrated her with a feature article, “The ‘ecosexuals’ hosting joyful weddings to the Earth.” I do recommend that you read that—which at least isn’t as prurient as Wikipedia’s article about her.

What you’ll find there is that Sprinkle and her lesbian partner Beth Stephens “married the Earth in 2008” and go around doing well-attended “weddings” in which they’ve married the earth, the sky, the moon, the Adriatic Sea, and more. (By the way, did they ask the earth’s, the sky’s, the moon’s, the Adriatic Sea’s permission to marry them? Doing so without their permission seems to me the height of anthropocentrism, which all environmentalists supposedly condemn.)

It’s fitting that CNN published this under the “Style” category, because it has no substance. This is theater of the absurd—and it’s as disturbing that the media and public pay attention to it as that it happens in the first place.

It demonstrates utter incomprehension of what marriage is all about—a covenantal relationship of mutual commitment between one man and one woman promising love, care, and fidelity for life.

Marrying the earth, the sky, the moon, the Adriatic Sea—there’s no mutual commitment there, and there’s no real meaning to whatever “commitment” Sprinkle and Stephens may make to them.

It also demonstrates utter incomprehension of what sex is all about—a tragic irony for someone who calls herself a “sex educator.”

Romans 1 warns that those who worship the creature rather than the Creator become fools, God giving them over to a depraved mind to do what is contrary to nature—particularly what is contrary to our sexual nature, that is, homosexuality.

These women, and those who join them in celebrating “ecosexuality,” go even farther than homosexuality in their rebellion. Human sexuality is meant to form a sacred “one-flesh” union between two human beings. Not only Scripture but also nature itself teaches this, as our sexual nature is designed not only for mutual pleasure, comfort, and communion in marriage but also for procreation. But Sprinkle and Stephens and those who applaud their perversions turn their backs on sexuality and lose its true benefits.

Sprinkle and Stephens may think themselves nature worshipers. In reality, by turning their backs on God and true sexuality, they’ve turned their backs on nature, too, by treating it as what it’s not—a proper object of worship. The prophets ridiculed idolatry in their day. We should laugh at it today, too—even as we soberly warn idolaters to forsake their idols and come to the one true God through faith in Jesus Christ, whose death alone can atone for their sins and reconcile them to Him.

For Christian principles about how mankind is to relate to the rest of creation, see “The Biblical Perspective of Environmental Stewardship: Subduing and Ruling the Earth to the Glory of God and the Benefit of Our Neighbors” and What Is the Most Important Environmental Task Facing American Christians Today?

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