Politico's Martin: "Is Code Pink to the left what the Westboro Baptist Church is to the right?"

Published: September 11, 2007, 1:30 pm

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In a September 10 blog entry, Politico senior political writer Jonathan Martin compared the anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace to the "virulently homophobic" Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), asking: "Is Code Pink to the left what the Westboro Baptist Church is to the right?" According to Martin, the groups are comparable because of their "bizarre tactics" that are "so self-defeating as to give credence to conspiracy theories that they're not what they seem." As Media Matters for America has noted, members of the WBC, based out of Topeka, Kansas, have gained notoriety for protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming that their deaths are inflicted by God to punish the United States for accepting the "sin" of homosexuality, and carrying signs reading "God Hates Fags." The WBC has been classified a "general hate" group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Martin's blog entry was subsequently highlighted

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