On a trip to Mormon Country (Sep. 8, 2006), the head of the National Association of Evangelicals branded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "cult", but said he might vote for a Mormon presidential candidate in 2008.
Ted Haggard, NAE president and the pastor of a Colorado Springs megachurch, said Mormons and evangelicals don't agree on spiritual matters even though they have similar political agendas.
"The Mormon church aligns with us on pro-life issues and the Mormon church aligns with us on many of the social issues," Haggard said in an interview. "Now where we would take pause is, we believe Mormonism is a Christian cult."
The first thing that jumps out at me is the description of "Mormonism" as a "Christian cult." Wow! Check it out! Up until now I have heard us described as a "cult" frequently enough, but this Haggard fellow has actually allowed the adjective Christian to be applied as a descriptive to the word "cult" when applied to the LDS church!
So, we might be a "cult" to them, but at least we're a "Christian cult". Oh, my, how we have come up in the world.