Fortune Columnist, Compares Bank Protesters To 'God Hates Fags' Group

Nina Easton and her husband Russell Schriefer were outraged Sunday when a loud, raucous protest arrived on their neighbor's front lawn in Chevy Chase, one of the nicest neighborhoods on the edge of Washington. The event, organized by the SEIU and National People's Action, targeted Greg Baer, deputy general counsel for Bank of America, for the bank's role in the foreclosure crisis.

Collateral damage: The loud noise woke Easton and Schriefer's two-year-old. When Schriefer came outside to complain, the protesters shouted him down.

On Wednesday, Easton, an editor at Fortune magazine, said in a column that the protesters went too far by targeting a person's private home. She wrote that the SEIU has joined the ranks of "radical animal-rights activists and the Kansas anti-gay fundamentalists harassing the grieving parents of a dead 20-year-old soldier at his funeral." (That's the "God Hates Fags" crowd.)

And aside from personal intimidation, Easton suggests the SEIU is hoping to batter the bank's image as part of its effort to unionize bank tellers. Bonus: The union owes Bank of America $4 million.

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