um - No.
Hat tip to Wonkette for this story and to Michelangelo Signorile from Sirius radio who conducted the interview with this bigoted ignoramus.
Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield said:
Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community — it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall. My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex…very rarely [transmitted].
um - No. Heterosexual transmission of HIV is the major vector in the global pandemic.
Campfield, obviously a person with no understanding of science, to put it mildly, has a lot of issues with teh gays:
"Don't say gay' bill clears Senate panel"
NASHVILLE - After some convoluted maneuvers, a Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms. The measure (SB49) is sponsored by Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, who unsuccessfully pushed the same idea - nicknamed the "don't say gay" bill - for six years as a member of the state House before he was elected to the Senate. As introduced, the bill would have put into law a declaration that it is illegal to discuss any sexual behavior other than heterosexuality prior to the ninth grade.
But when it came before the Senate Education Committee, Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, contended current law already prohibits such instruction by deeming it a misdemeanor to teach any sex education that is not part of the "family life curriculum" adopted by the state Board of Education. Tracy proposed an amendment to rewrite Campfield's bill to require the Board of Education to study the issue and determine whether any teaching about homosexuality is occurring and, if so, recommend what should be done about it.
Campfield contends homosexuality is being discussed in classrooms. Spokesmen for the Board of Education and the state Department of Education told the committee they are unaware of any such activity.
What boggles the mind is that people elected this guy.
His political history in TN is bizarre.
Service in the Tennessee house
He was first elected in 2004 to the Tennessee House of Representatives. While in the House, he was best known for trying to join the legislative Black Caucus, and for his sponsorship of bills to issue death certificates for aborted fetuses; to force women to look at fetal ultrasound images before having an abortion; for the right to carry guns onto college campuses; to eliminate the state’s pre-kindergarten programs.
Contact information for Campfield.
Amazing.