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I haven't seen the film, which might contain something to convince me, but Uganda's religious demographics (page 11: http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/2002%20Census%20Final%20Reportdoc.pdf) have made me doubt this thesis since it became popular. How much influence could American evangelicals have in a country where their coreligionists comprise, at most, 5.8% of the population? The Church of Uganda (35.9%), which I do know something about, hasn't arrived at its reactionary positions through the urgings of Canterbury. Rather the opposite, actually. And I have a vague idea that it may exercise more influence in Uganda than a bunch of yahoos from Missouri. I could be wrong, but my instincts here are to agree with Scott Lively: "It's a very racist premise to suggest that a white evangelical pastor, just by the force of his rhetoric, could overpower the will and intelligence of an entire African country." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/how-uganda-was-seduced-by-antigay-conservative-evangelicals-9193593.html -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
