In an attempt to justify his “don’t say gay” bill, aimed at keeping anything gay related out of the school system, Republican Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield told his mirror TMZ that the gay rights community are the “biggest bullies in the world.”
In the call, reacting to a letter from a gay rights advocate, Campfield said the “gay rights community are the biggest bullies in the world.” The TMZ hosts asked him what he found so aggressive in the letter from a gay rights advocate, clearly not understanding that in the world view of a Republican, anyone who exercises their first amendment rights while disagreeing with said Republican is seen as a hostile enemy. Also, there seems to be a lot of fear from these far right Republicans. A whole lot of fear.
Campfield proved that this is all about his ego by swaggering, “I’m just not going to put up with it.” Indeed, sir. No one is asking you to put up with anything, unless you consider allowing others to express their point of view as egregious.
The Republican sermonized, homosexuality is “very dangerous” because, “have you ever heard of AIDS?” Had I been there I would have asked him if he had ever heard of unemployment. He then proceeded to say that Africa has a problem with AIDS because a little birdie told him that sodomy is much more prevalent there.
Campfield clarified that there’s no comparison between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement, and any such suggestion is “insulting to the civil rights movement of the black people.” (Any takers on just how much of an advocate Campfield has been for “black people”? There’s nothing a bully likes better than to divide and conquer his prey.)
The Republican told TMZ Live, “You know, you could say the same thing about kids who are shooting heroin. We need to show them the best ways to shoot up. No, we don’t. Why do we have to hypersexualize little children? Why can’t we just let little kids be little kids for a while?”
Or, let some senators be little kids forever. But I digress.
The Republican then went full on Leave Britney Alone wail, saying he wishes the gay community would just leave the straight people alone. Campfield whined that any time they speak, they go “bazonkers”. “We don’t wanna hear about it every day. Quit trying to ram it down everybody’s throats and quit pushing it on everyone. Just leave us alone.”
Campfield went on this self-pitying rage about how the gays need to leave him alone after he bullied and insulted a self-identified gay TMZ employee. Campfield dodged all reasonable questions and insisted on moving the goal posts to suggest that anyone questioning him was advocating teaching 5-year-olds about sex. It should be noted that this is from the party who seems to have no problems with having loaded assault weapons in our homes, on our streets and in our schools.
The wounded look in the TMZ employee’s eyes makes me wish I would have been there to ask the Senator if he missed the part in the Bible about not judging others. It’s always the dense projectors of the world who cause the most pain, and it’s impossible to get through the wall of defense they’ve built around their very fragile sense of self. See, Campfield thinks he can’t win if gays are allowed to exist. It’s an affront to his ego that anyone would go against his “beliefs”.
Also, as a typical bully, the Campfield type has a keen eye for the most vulnerable and enjoys kicking them around. (In his neck of the woods, the most vulnerable are the gays, minorities, and women.) What does that say about him? Paper tiger. It takes a lot more courage to stand up and say who you are than it does to kick the dog. This is how bullies prove their manhood to others – by showing that they can humiliate the less powerful.
The TMZ gang is shocked by the senator’s reaction, and this is part of the problem. There’s a large part of this country that has no idea just how rotten things are in the Southern belt. People are outraged today by an Alabama teacher who called Michelle Obama fat butt while teaching his psychology class. He peppered anti-gay hate speech into his lecture, proving my point that bullies come after those they view as beneath them and therefore vulnerable.
They hate with equal fervor the gays, women/young girls, minorities, and all Others that are not white, straight, male Christians from certain European regions. Please wake up, America; these are not anomalies. This is consistent. It’s ugly and hateful, and it shames the good people in those regions. It’s easy to analyze from afar as their fear of their growing irrelevance. True as that is, that’s not helping vulnerable children in those areas today. A hatred is burning through these people, and it’s inflicting deep pain. My heart hurts for the children in that classroom, gay and straight alike. They are being bombarded with sneering hate, and directed as to where to aim their resentments.
The gays are bullying everyone, y’all! How? Well, even mentioning their rather relevant fight for civil rights is a mean spirited act of bullying because Campfield, an allegedly small-government Republican, doesn’t want to hear about it. So he’s going to use the law to silence any mention of gay rights even in an 8th grade history class. His right not to be offended supersedes everyone else’s right to liberty, which is another classic example of privilege in action. In a final, sadistic twist, the Senator’s party puts a “freedom” stamp on their efforts to steal others’ liberty.





Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
With liberty and justice for all…the “right” kind.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Republicans: Textbook examples of psychological projection. And hypocrisy. And ignorance worthy of the 17th century.
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Just A Dumb Fireman
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Besides, he looks gay.
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djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:17 pm
He doeshave a come hither to the next stall look.
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Janecita
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:43 pm
“But officer, I wasn’t tapping your foot, I just have a wide stance”
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View_From_Here
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
This guy sounds like he “learned” ‘GAY’ from reading Perez Hilton.
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
clearly the biggest bullies in town are the people who support people having the right to kill other people yet at the same time absolutely not support a woman’s right not to be violated and abused.
That my friends is what a bully is.
I am ashamed that this person is from Tennessee, but please understand it is fully expected of a hick
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SinghX
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 3:54 pm
So, Campfield had a male “roommate” in his own home from 2003-5…he said he “rented” the room to the man; turned out the “renter” was a sex offender. Yet, Campfield claims he knew nothing about it. Why does my gay-dar go off on this story?:
“6/26/2005–KNOXVILLE (AP) — State Rep. Stacey Campfield is evicting a roommate after learning from the news media that the man is a convicted sex offender.
“Did I have any knowledge (of the man’s crimes)? No. He answered an ad in the paper,” said the freshman Republican, who renovates and leases houses as a profession and has been renting a room to the man since at least late 2003.
“It’s not like I’m condoning what he did,” added the outspoken Campfield, whose conservative Web blog has been criticized by colleagues for poking fun at Democrats and deriding gay adoption and abortion.
Campfield’s renter Christopher Eatherly, 30, was convicted in 2002 in Anderson County of three counts of statutory rape for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. He was charged the following year for failing to register his new address in Knox County with the TBI.
That address was 1409 Henna Street, according to court records. But there is no Henna Street in Knox County. There is a 1409 Hannah Avenue, however, and Campfield owns it.
Campfield acknowledged Thursday that he rented that house to Eatherly and another man. When the other man moved out, Campfield rented a room in his Flagler Road home to Eatherly. The Flagler Road home is Campfield’s official residence — the only one of seven properties he owns in Knox County that is within his legislative district.
Campfield said he didn’t know about Eatherly’s criminal past until questioned by local news media this week. He then decided to ask Eatherly to leave.
“People are going to believe what they want to believe,” Campfield said. “But I haven’t broken any law and I don’t know what I could have done differently
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Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Hint: I think its called vetting the people you rent to.
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Eykis
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Stacey Campfield is only ONE of the many MORONS in the Tennessee statehouse. He is loud right now – meanwhile, ultra-sounds, guns in cars, guns in bars, guns everywhere, decimation of worker’s compensation, banning state income tax by Constitutional amendment, a myriad of IMBECILIC LAWS are being presented in the Tennessee Lege by EVANGELIBAGGERS. They want “small govt” but are totally prepared to turn ACA over to feds because they don’t want to expand TennCare which is Medicaid in Tenn nor create HC exchanges.
Campfield is one of the worst, and he is also a carpetbagger from NY~
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majii
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Campfield: “We don’t wanna hear about it every day. Quit trying to ram it down everybody’s throats and quit pushing it on everyone. Just leave us alone.”
This guy should take his own advice. The rest of us don’t want to hear everyday that some asshole RW politician is trying to take away the constitutional rights of LGBTQ Americans. He’s guilty of trying to ram his beliefs down our throats, and he needs to stop pushing them on us. He could just leave us and LGBTQ Americans alone.
I guess for people like Campfield, the Golden Rule has no reciprocity. They seem to think it means that they can do as they please, and the rest of us should sit down, STFU, and let them have their way.
Campfield conveniently forgets that he took an oath to uphold the Constitution. This does NOT mean that he and other Cro Magnon politicians can change/interpret the Constitution to deprive any American of his/her civil rights. IMO, he’s wrong when he says that LGBTQ Americans’ fight to live their lives as they please has no connection to the Civil Rights Movement. It does, because each struggle involved(es) a group of Americans who were/are being deprived of their civil rights under the Constitution. It is politicians like Campfield who are dividing the nation and blaming it on others. I want them to keep pushing this sh*t and keep losing elections. I want them to let Americans see that for all of their talk of “rebranding” the GOP, it means they’ll carry on “business as usual.”
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Frank
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:00 pm
So I guess this guy didn’t get the memo from upstairs that the GOP is supposed to soften its image so people don’t recoil in horror.
Good luck with that, GOP, while you’re still full of hateful bigots who don’t think before they say how they really feel. Or afterward.
In my book, the GOP is going about it all wrong, trying to make superficial cosmetic changes. These people are never going to make the changes they need until they understand their problem goes deeper than image, and this guy is a poster child for what’s wrong with them. He’s never going to change, and neither is the GOP until they stop running and supporting loonies like this guy.
And that’s only part of it. Their mouthpieces in the media need to get the memo also.
What good will it do to replace the Campfields if the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Reillys, Fox News, Michael Weiner and the rest keep on lying, demonizing, demagoging, lowering the level of discourse, and everything else they do to keep the sheep afraid and fired up?
The politicians may change their tune, but lots of people will understand that they can still go to the right wing media mouthpieces for reassurance that nothing has really changed, that they can go on being outraged the homos can still get abortions, and fantasizing about how miraculously wonderful their own lives will be once the evil gubmint stops taxing the super wealthy, and stops trying to prevent them from having enough high powered weapons and ammunition to blow away everybody that ever looked at them funny.
Rant over.
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SinghX
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 7:00 am
…”The politicians may change their tune, but lots of people will understand that they can still go to the right wing media mouthpieces for reassurance that nothing has really changed, that they can go on being outraged the homos can still get abortions, and fantasizing about how miraculously wonderful their own lives will be once the evil gubmint stops taxing the super wealthy, and stops trying to prevent them from having enough high powered weapons and ammunition to blow away everybody that ever looked at them funny…”
WOW, Frank! You the the Gold Star for rant of the day!
You’ve provided one of the best precise/concise “rants” I’ve read in a long time…do it again!
The GOP and their slimy followers can use “Dr Luntz” (as he likes to be called) all day long as the “Slime Whisperer” in order to re-spin their “messaging” but, it won’t work/it’s too late (Luntz knows it; he’s just taking their $$$). The GOP created this cretinous gun-heavy Titanic-sized “messaging”; too late to turn it around.
Their ship is going down…
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Sabyen91
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 2:22 am
“Quit trying to ram it down everybody’s throats”
Drink! Definite closet case.
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Mary James
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 10:43 am
Poor sad deeply closeted gay man feels picked on. The more he does ,the more people realize who he really is.
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Bill
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 9:58 pm
According to the republican, bullying means not taking any of their guff!. Here come the bullyies……asshole….
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