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  • Summary: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the proposed death penalty for homosexuality. Thanks to charismatic religious leaders and a well-financed campaign, these drdraconian new laws and the politicians that peddle them are winning over the Ugandan public. But these dangerous policies and the money that fuels them aren’t coming from Africa; they’re being imported from some of America’s largest megachurches.
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  1. Reviewed by: A.A. Dowd
    Oct 11, 2013
    83
    An eye-opening, often-infuriating new documentary.
  2. Reviewed by: James Greenberg
    Oct 7, 2013
    80
    Williams is to be commended not only for his filmmaking skill, but also for pulling back the curtain on a most disturbing situation.
  3. Reviewed by: Alan Scherstuhl
    Oct 8, 2013
    80
    Kudos to the filmmakers for so adeptly laying out the history of American evangelicals' Ugandan mission, and for noting that HIV infection rates there have gone up since the abstinence-only education started.
  4. Reviewed by: Andrew Lapin
    Oct 8, 2013
    80
    [A] gripping, urgent, and often horrifying documentary.
  5. Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Oct 10, 2013
    80
    A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans, Roger Ross Williams’s God Loves Uganda approaches this intersection of faith and politics with some fairness and a good deal of outrage.
  6. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    Oct 7, 2013
    70
    Roger Ross Williams’ forceful polemic succeeds to a startling degree, rightly decrying the use of the gospel to incite homophobia, and allowing the most fervent interviewees to damn themselves with their own proselytizing words.
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