‘Don’t Say Gay’ GOP Senator Who Insisted HIV Transmitted Only via Gay Sex Loses Primary
The good citizens of Tennessee won’t have Senator Stacey Campfield to kick around anymore. Nor will late night comedians, pundits, or journalists. The freshman, one-term state Senator lost his primary battle against Dr. Richard Briggs, whom most late night comedians, pundits, and journalists will likely ask if he agrees with one of Sen. Campfield’s most outrageous — and dangerous — false claims, that “it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex.”
Campfield won just 28 percent of the vote.
Senator Stacey Campfield came to nationwide attention when he sponsored the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would not only have prevented any discussion of homosexuality in public schools whatsoever, but, as a result, so severely stigmatize LGBTQ children as to make them likely more subject to bullying and even possibly increase the rate of attempted suicides.
