From Nebraska-“God Loves Uganda” is a documentary about the effort to ban homosexuality in Uganda, a campaign driven by American evangelicals who see the African country as the place where they can impose their religious cultural values on an entire nation.
This isn’t the first time that the assault on gays in Uganda, where a parliamentary bill would make being gay punishable by death, has been brought to the screen. “Call Me Kuchu,” which shares some of the same primary subjects as “God Loves Uganda,” earlier documented the struggle of gays and lesbians against the bill and the efforts to shame and banish them.
With “God Loves Uganda,” director Roger Ross Williams looks at the U.S. conservative Christian efforts to evangelize Uganda and bring their solutions to the American culture war to the African nation.
At the center of those efforts is the International House of Prayer, which is headquartered in Kansas City, Mo. Preaching throughout the world, IHOP sends young missionaries to many places. But as its elder Lou Engle enthusiastically states, “Africa is the firepot” for evangelism.
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