What: private screening of award-winning film God Loves Uganda (details below)
Where: Chicago Filmmakers - 5243 N Clark St., Chicago
When: Friday, Sept 27 @ 7:15 pm
Cost: suggested donation $10
More about the film: As an American influenced bill to make homosexuality punishable by death wins widespread support, tension in Uganda mounts and an atmosphere of murderous hatred takes hold. The film reveals the conflicting motives of faith and greed, ecstasy and egotism, among Ugandan ministers, American evangelical leaders and the foot soldiers of a theology that sees Uganda as a test case, ground zero in a battle not for millions,but billions of souls.
God Loves Uganda explores the role of the American evangelical movement in Uganda,where American missionaries have been credited with both creating schools and hospitals and promoting dangerous religious bigotry. The film follows evangelical leaders in America and Uganda along with politicians and missionaries as they attempt the radical task of eliminating “sexual sin” and converting Ugandans to fundamentalist Christianity.
More about the evening: The Marin Foundation presents the movie at 7:15, with a brief time for discussion afterward. More details here, and feel free to RSVP on Facebook.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Melinda: melinda@themarinfoundation.org.
