National Association of Evangelicals Leader, Ted Haggard. (From The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right)

Somehow, this doesn't surprise us coming from Ted Haggard, who is head of the 30 million-strong National Association of Evangelicals. From Catholic News Service:

Heidi Ewing, the Catholic co-director of the new theatrical documentary "Jesus Camp," said she found some hostility about her religious faith during the making of the film from an unexpected source: a high-profile evangelical minister...

"My one disturbing encounter was at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs (Colo.) with Pastor Ted Haggard," head of the National Association of Evangelicals, who is "the senior minister of the church," Ewing said.

"I was in the service, and we had three cameras rolling, and there were 3,000 people in the church, and my cameraman was on the stage shooting him, and Pastor Ted started teasing the cameraman: 'Where are you from? England? Do you go to church?'" she recounted.

When the cameraman told Rev. Haggard that he goes to church when he's in England, the minister said, "So you're in the Church of England." The cameraman replied, "No, I'm Catholic," according to Ewing. "Pastor Ted turned to the congregation—and I have this on tape—in a very mocking tone, he said, 'Oh, we l-o-o-o-ve the Catholics, don't we?' and people started laughing.

"Why would he whack another religion?" she asked. "There was a disparaging way about how everyone reacted. As the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, he is a representative of 30 million people and a religiously respected person in the movement. For him to joke like that, I was pretty alarmed."

In a statement on the group's Web site, Rev. Haggard said, "This movie manipulates facts like a Michael Moore film and works the camera like 'The Blair Witch Project.' It's one more 'documentary' that seems to miss the point intentionally."

Last week, Haggard had these disparaging remarks for the Mormons:

"We evangelicals view Mormons as a Christian cult group. A cult group is a group that claims exclusive revelation. And typically, it's hard to get out of these cult groups. And so Mormonism qualifies as that."

And who can forget Haggard's statements on Islam [from Carpetbagger]

"The Christian God encourages freedom, love, forgiveness, prosperity and health. The Muslim god appears to value the opposite."

“My fear,” he says, "is that my children will grow up in an Islamic state."

And that is why he believes spiritual war requires a virile, worldly counterpart. "I teach a strong ideology of the use of power," he says, "of military might, as a public service." He is for preemptive war, because he believes the Bible's exhortations against sin set for us a preemptive paradigm, and he is for ferocious war, because "the Bible's bloody. There's a lot about blood."

It seems like the only people Haggard supports are "God's chosen people," the state of Israel who he has pledged to support come "hell or high water," despite his opinion that Barbara Walters is destined to spend eternity in hell unlesss she converts.

"If a person does not accept Jesus Christ as his savior, does he go to hell?" Ms. Walters asks.

"Yes," Mr. Haggard says.

Ms. Walters, who is Jewish, pursues the point: "What if the God is not Jesus Christ? What if it's a different God? Do they go to hell?"

"I think so," says Mr. Haggard