Is it common for American pastors to say stuff like this?

[Sarah Louise]

I am English. Last week I had a long conversation on twitter with a seventeen year old African American creationist who came on twitter saying 'evolutionists' are stupid and evil. That was not a great start but we twitter atheists soon realised he was really upset. Why? He had been told by his pastor that 'evolutionists' say that black people are inferior because they are evolved from apes. This pastor informed him that if evolution becomes commonly accepted in the US then black people will be regarded as animals and treated as such.

When he understood that evolutionary theory says that we all come from ape-like ancestors and in fact technically are still apes but that black and white people are exactly the same species, he was fine. He actually read some articles and watched some clips we linked about evolution and then he said 'Oh, OK, that makes sense. I didn't get that. Thanks' (That's a first for me debating with creationists)
Anyway,this made me really angry cos he was a really nice young man and open to evidence and information and this pastor had deliberately turned him against science with misinformation and inflammatory nonsense. This week I see that various pastors have announced that the school shooting which recently happened is due to the teaching of evolution and acceptance of homosexuality(rather than a mentally ill man having access to guns) and I would like to know how common it is for pastors to say such awful things. Is it just a few nutcases in the bible belt or are there loads of them all over warping kids minds with such horrible ideas?
Mark - who is that aimed at and what is it about?