Bill D: It's much more than one pastor. Read the article. It says there have been at least six recent books expressing more or less the same point of view, for instance:

Randall Balmer, "Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America — an Evangelical's Lament."

Like a lot of newspaper articles, this one starts by describing one instance and then goes on to discuss a larger trend.

And maybe it's more significant that the church did not lose 4,000 of its 5,000 members.