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We’ve all seen recent posters declaring the new EVIL DEAD to be the most terrifying film you will ever experience. I can assure you, that is not the case, as GOD LOVES UGANDA is by far the most frightening movie in recent memory. Sharing a similar premise to the hilarious BOOK OF MORMON (well-meaning Christians go to Africa to spread the gospel, insanity ensues), parallels may be drawn, but the real life scenarios presented in this film are so surreal that they stretch beyond parody. Williams gradually reveals that the stark raving mad rhetoric spewed by the Christian Right and the Ugandan pastors they influence is far from funny – in fact, it’s lethal.”

Read the full review right here.

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God loves Uganda is an astonishingly courageous documentary by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams. This film takes an intense look at the hate-filled rhetoric that right-winged, Christian Evangelicals are spewing to the vulnerable citizens of Uganda which has become a dumping ground for baseless, homophobic, nonsense.

The documentary was an official selection of the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival.

Using the breathtakingly beautiful Ugandan landscape as the backdrop for this gripping documentary, Williams and his team go directly into the eye of the storm, interviewing the Evangelicals, newly ordained Ugandan “mega-preachers”, and civil rights activists while showing the native’s reluctance to embrace this foreign doctrine.”

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Matt Barber, attorney for Liberty Counsel, a US right wing Christian law firm, listed as an anti-gay group, has been praising anti-gay Ugandan evangelical pastor, Martin Ssempa on Twitter. Ssempa tweeted earlier this week: ‘Homos are paid to spread the vice by hiding it under human rights gibberish! They are $$ by rich European sodomy groups!’

Barber retweeted Ssempa’s anti-gay slur and praised him in a follow-up tweet, saying: ‘Here’s a man not afraid of the international homofascist juggernaut.’ The two continued to promote each other’s anti-gay tweets throughout the week.

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Thanks to everyone who came out to see the film!!

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Here’s what director Roger Ross Williams had to say when receiving the award:

As the son of a religious leader I understand the power of religion to inspire. In the spirit of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo’s message of love and acceptance, I am honored to receive this award. Thank you Full Frame, for giving us an opportunity to bring the film to an audience that celebrates documentary films and respects the diversity of the human spirit.”

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As reported by Melanie Nathan, on O blog-dee-O-blog-da:

Ugandan Pastors Solomon Male & Rev. Musoke are conducting an anti gay rally next door to David Kato ‘s burial grounds in Mukono Uganda to not only further persecute LGBTI Ugandans, calling for hate in the name of Christianity, but also to insult the memory of a great hero and to further the pain already felt by a mother who lost her beloved son.

The pastors are accusing the Ugandan government of failing to pass the Anti-homosexuality bill, in an incoherent comment: “the bill in parliament is brought by homosexuals to fight us, fight against it. Join us against homosexuality. Gov’t has failed” is what one observer has noted in a tweet.

Male is the pastor who was recently found guilty in a Uganda court and sentenced to community service and fines along with fervently gay hating Pastors Martin Sempa, Pr Michael David Kyazze, Pr Robert Kaira, and others, for conspiring to tarnish the reputation and trade of Pr Robert Kayanja.

Male’s current anti-gay attack assaults the memory and the surviving mother, of the late David Kato Kisule, who was a Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, considered a father of Uganda’s gay rights movement and described as “Uganda’s first openly gay man.” He served as advocacy officer for Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). Kato was murdered in 2011, shortly after winning a lawsuit against a magazine which had published his name and photograph identifying him as gay and calling for him to be executed.

Kato has been revered around the world as hero for his work to help persecuted and oppressed LGBTI people in Uganda. Although his murderer was tried and convicted, receiving a light 30 year sentence, the case did not seek the truth that lay behind the murder of this gay hero.

His burial place is considered hallowed ground for LGBTI human rights defenders around the world. Today anti-gay pastors held an anti-homosexuality rally near the grave.”

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