Roger Ross Williams Quotes

#1. I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

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#2. The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

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#3. I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

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#4. Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

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#5. When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

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#6. Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

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#7. American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

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#8. Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.

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#9. Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

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#10. I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

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#11. I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

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#12. They embrace them because they represent everything that America represents: money, power, and freedom. Why else would you see an old Ugandan woman respectfully listen to a 22-year-old white girl from America telling her what she should or shouldn't believe?

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#13. I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

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#14. After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

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