The landlocked nation has seen more than its share of sorrow, from genocide to the horrors of AIDS to the guerilla terror of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. Uganda in particular has been a hotbed of American evangelical activity. But American evangelical groups, undaunted by their losses in America’s culture wars, have been taking their messages-good and bad-to the multitudes of Africa. The Supreme Court’s recent decisions on same-sex marriage were a sound rebuke to religious conservatives who have sought to demonize gay Americans and prevent them from sharing rights that their fellow citizens take for granted.
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