An Evangelical Who Stands Apart

From the Wichita Eagle (with thanks to Buzzflash for the link):

An Indiana farm boy and onetime Bible smuggler in communist eastern Europe, the Rev. Ted Haggard has become one of the most influential voices in evangelical Christianity.

President since 2003 of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard is conservative, outspoken and charismatic, a dependable voice for the religious right in opposition to abortion, homosexual marriage and the "activist judiciary."

But he parts ways with many evangelicals with his concern about global climate change and other environmental issues, support for the Supreme Court decision protecting gays' sexual privacy, and support for social justice.

He believes in angels and faith healing and speaking in tongues, but he dismisses as fantasy the popular "end times" scenario of a coming Armageddon showdown between the forces of good and evil.