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State Senator Behind “Don't Say Gay” Bill Refused Service At Restaurant
Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield, who recently said that it is “virtually impossible” to contract HIV through heterosexual sex, was kicked out of a restaurant in Knoxville. He went quietly.
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There's no escaping the homosexual agenda these days -- even as far into the conservative heartland as Knoxville, Tennessee.
A Tennessee state senator who fought to block teaching about homosexuality in schools was refused service at a restaurant in Knoxville yesterday, he confirmed to BuzzFeed.
The Bistro at the Bijou posted on their Facebook page that they turned State Senator Stacey Campfield away because of his views: "I hope that Stacey Campfield now knows what if feels like to be unfairly discrimanted [sic] against."
Campfield sponsored a bill that would bar teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, and he recently said in an interview that it is "virtually impossible" to contract HIV from heterosexual sex and that AIDS originated by a man having sex with a monkey.
An unfazed Campfield told BuzzFeed in a brief telephone interview that "I went in there and the lady started calling me names and wouldn't serve me." The hostess told him he was a homophobe and that he hates homosexuals, he said.
Campfield said that on the contrary, he has no problem with gays. "In my business I do rental properties and I've rented to homosexuals, mixed-race couples, black couples," he said. "And about every single group you can think of has been in my office."
Campfield stood by his comments on Huffington Post editor Michael Signorile's show in an interview with the local NBC affiliate in Knoxville, saying that "The odds of a regular man getting it from a regular woman are very low." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site notes that vaginal intercourse "is the most common way the virus is transmitted in much of the world."
In Campfield's view, he's the victim of the Knoxville thought police.
"If you don't think the way certain people think, then they think you don't have a right to be served," he said.
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- amberr State Senator Behind "Don't Say G...
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“If you don't think the way certain people think [and in fact try to enforce your own thoughts upon them through formal governmental policy], then they think you don't have a right to be served,” he said. We need a term for the rage that fills me when Republicans demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the concepts they themselves champion.
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I'm not a homophobe, here's proof! Let me also offer without provocation evidence that I'm also not racist!
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There IS a homosexual agenda these days. It is NOT normal, healthy nor should it be accepted. It should rightfully be on the DSM axis as a mental illness as it was until 1979. It is perverse and a mortal sin. Read your Bible.
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He probably left so he wouldn't contract gay through food contamination. What an idiot.
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Him being kicked out of a restaurant isn't exactly helping the cause, in my opinion. I completely agree that he's an idiot, but he wasn't in there to discriminate, and now he has all the more reason to dislike gay people.
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“The odds of a regular man getting it from a regular woman are very low.” so, prunes before sex = no aids? get sunsweet on the line.
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The fact that the guy is quoted as saying “regular man” and “regular woman” is reason enough to know he's a total bigot/idiot. Plus his name is Stacy; how gay is that?
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“There's no escaping the homosexual agenda these days…” What is this, a Fox News article?
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You can't say you don't hate gays but everything you do is against them. Stop playing victim and own up to what he is a homophobe.





























