God’s Gift (2016)
Bible, cannabis, fellowship
This piece was made in solidarity for Pride, following the most lethal mass shooting in our country, at a gay club in Florida. My collaborator Ross Lee and I rolled joints in homophobic bible verses, filling them with a strain of cannabis called “God’s Gift.” We handed them out at Pride, capturing images of people burning the text that fundamentalists use to try to deny them their rights. Each portrait is named after the bible verse its subjects chose to smoke, taken as we watched it go up in flame.
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Leviticus 20:13
If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act.
They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act.
They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense.
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Romans 1:27
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
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Leviticus 18:22
Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
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I Corinthians 6:9
Do not fool yourselves, people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts
or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves—
none of these will possess God's Kingdom.
Do not fool yourselves, people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts
or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves—
none of these will possess God's Kingdom.
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Jude 1:7
And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality
and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire
and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality
and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire
and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
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Romans 1:26
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires.
Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires.
Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
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Hebrews 13:1
Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!
Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it!
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Strain: God's Gift
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The menu that everyone got to choose from.
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