God Loves Uganda

An eye-opening, often-infuriating new documentary.

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.

[A] gripping, urgent, and often horrifying documentary.

Williams is to be commended not only for his filmmaking skill, but also for pulling back the curtain on a most disturbing situation.

Watching this film will leave you with some dispiriting questions about America and its values.

God Loves Uganda clearly lays the blame for it at the feet of the American evangelical movement. The movie doesn’t really argue its case, preferring to stand back, in quiet outrage, as the representatives of that movement are shown with the match in their hands.

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.