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"God Loves Uganda" is a new film documenting the rabid anti-gay atmosphere in Africa fostered by American evangelicals.
"The film also raises urgent questions for American people of faith who care about justice and human rights," All Out's Banks added, according to The Huffington Post. "The large majority of churches in the U.S. raise money to do good in their communities and abroad. But this film makes clear that we must each be certain that our contributions at the collection plate are not going, directly or indirectly, toward supporting laws that call for the death of gays and lesbians."
There is already an attack on Christianity in the USA. This is just more propaganda to demonize Christian Americans even more. Only the perpetrators carrying out this misuse of religion are responsible not the Christian faith. Just like they demonized muslims and make them all out to be jihadist....we are just another causality of the war on religion....
There is already an attack on Christianity in the USA. This is just more propaganda to demonize Christian Americans even more. Only the perpetrators carrying out this misuse of religion are responsible not the Christian faith. Just like they demonized muslims and make them all out to be jihadist....we are just another causality of the war on religion....
Yet...The article is from the Christian Post and states "Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams makes it clear, however, that his documentary does not try to portray all or even most Christians in a negative light.
To be honest, the article was kind of unclear what it's even about--other than that Evangelicals are apparently bad for Uganda because *gasp* they think homosexuality is bad!
Other reviews of the film, however, have suggested that William's Op-Doc might be very misleading and one-sided in its presentation. Justin Chang, a senior film critic at Variety, wrote that the film is a "scalding appraisal of the Christian missionary movement in Africa," and that it has "a ferocious mission of its own: to portray American evangelicals as arrogant and deluded, yet dangerously effective in their suppression of sexual freedoms."
To be honest, the article was kind of unclear what it's even about--other than that Evangelicals are apparently bad for Uganda because *gasp* they think homosexuality is bad!
I'm surprised you know nothing about the Ugandan "Kill the gays" bill and how it originated.
While this is just a wikipedia article, it will give you a starting place to educate yourself on the basics.
Other reviews of the film, however, have suggested that William's Op-Doc might be very misleading and one-sided in its presentation. Justin Chang, a senior film critic at Variety, wrote that the film is a "scalding appraisal of the Christian missionary movement in Africa," and that it has "a ferocious mission of its own: to portray American evangelicals as arrogant and deluded, yet dangerously effective in their suppression of sexual freedoms."
I'm not sure of your point. Extremist right-wing gay-hating evangelicals are the "perpetrators carrying out this misuse of religion" - especially in Uganda.
But the documentary is not trying to claim that they represent all Christians in the US or the Christian faith.
Other reviews of the film, however, have suggested that William's Op-Doc might be very misleading and one-sided in its presentation. Justin Chang, a senior film critic at Variety, wrote that the film is a "scalding appraisal of the Christian missionary movement in Africa," and that it has "a ferocious mission of its own: to portray American evangelicals as arrogant and deluded, yet dangerously effective in their suppression of sexual freedoms."
It would have been nice for you to source your quotes with a link. But I guess that would have entailed providing easy access to the following information, from the same article you cite, and I'm sure you wanted to avoid that:
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To its credit, the film focuses its attack not on Christian belief per se, but rather on the movement’s overreaching, sexually repressive agendas. Williams lays out the sobering consequences of the heavily right-wing-backed abstinence campaign, which replaced President Clinton’s family-planning initiatives and led to a sharp rise in Uganda’s AIDS rate.
Even more disturbing are the numerous cited examples of anti-gay extremism in Uganda: the political influence enjoyed by charismatic activist Scott Lively, who says gays are to blame for Nazi Germany; the murder of local LGBT activist David Kato and the subsequent picketing at his funeral; the hysterical sermons of pastor Martin Ssempa, who uses gay-porn slide shows to whip his congregation into an “Africans against sodomy” lather; and, most urgently, a pending bill that would make homosexual activity punishable by death.
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