Sometimes I really don’t understand what the heck WorldNet Daily is up to. On one hand I know they’re the antithesis to SFGate’s leftiness, on the other hand, I could see the shades of wowza-level social conservatism that just leaves me scratching my head as I think to myself: “damned Christian mullahs.”

Take this article — WND’s radical expose of Howard Stern – FREE today! — for example:

An edition in the works for nearly a year, “KILLER CULTURE” sheds an unprecedented journalistic light on how and why – led by MTV and a few other corporations intent on profiting from the $150 billion youth market – today’s adolescent culture increasingly resembles the wanton, pagan days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

The other FREE report, “THE NEW PAGANISM,” is a stunning documentary on exactly how paganism has invaded America’s traditional Judeo-Christian culture – including the nation’s Christian churches!

For years, Christians have stood by helplessly as their once-dominant religion has been increasingly scoffed at, marginalized and demonized. They have watched a dizzying succession of outrageous court decisions – outlawing the 10 Commandments in schools and courtrooms, forbidding acknowledgement of God in graduation speeches, and most recently, declaring public recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.

But while these are the conflict’s familiar flashpoints, the real fight lies elsewhere. Indeed, the biggest war of all is that raging within the churches themselves. “THE NEW PAGANISM” spells it out as never before.

“Wanton, pagan days of Sodom and Gomorrah?” It’s a scare tactic, nothing more. Whenever those two cities are mentioned in cultural terms, it evokes the idea of God’s punishment: fire and brimstone for all the horny immoral people. Godwin’s law, anyone? I find it ironic and amusing that the very same people who complain about an assault on their religious freedoms are using scare tactics and are more than willing to stifle other forms of free speech as a result of their exercises in free (religious) speech.

Sometimes, politics and morals come hand in hand. Sometimes, as in the case of the WorldNet folks, the interaction between the two can be so unusual that it leaves me scratching my head and feeling like I went through an intellectual rollercoaster ride that has no point, nor has an end of its own.

(Link to WND article courtesy of Eric Scheie, who examines Howard Stern’s situation in depth in this post.)