A Tennessee state lawmaker on Thursday claimed that HIV originated in the gay community by an airline pilot who had sex with monkey, and that it was “virtually impossible” to contract the disease through heterosexual sex.
David Luttrell, Metro PulseAppearing on the Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirius XM radio, State Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) — author of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would prohibit teachers from mentioning homosexuality in kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms — also asserted that the lifespan for gays and lesbians is “very short,” telling listeners to “Google it yourself.”
“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…
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“What is the average lifespan of a homosexual? It’s very short … Anybody out there who’s listening – your twelve listeners on your show, you have them Google ‘average homosexual lifespan.’ It’s very short.”
Defending his remarks in an interview with WBIR-TV on Friday, Campfield said, “I’m not a historian on AIDS, but I’ve read and seen what other people have read and seen and those facts are out there.”
Dr. Jacques Pepin, author of the book “The Origin of AIDS,” called Campfield’s assertions “kind of funny,” in the sense of being strange and not fully factual, reported the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Pepin said that it is generally accepted that the initial transmission of AIDS from chimpanzees to humans occurred in Central Africa, probably 1921, when a hunter who killed a chimp contracted the virus while butchering the animal for food.
In parts of Africa, Pepin noted, about 30 percent of the population is infected with HIV, mostly through heterosexual intercourse.
Campfield has cited a 1988 advice column as the basis for his belief that HIV can not be contracted through heterosexual sex.
Campfield’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill passed the state Senate last year, and is now awaiting a vote in the Tennessee state House.
The bill would prohibit public elementary and middle school teachers from providing instruction, material or counseling that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. Campfield claims the bill is necessary because homosexuality is a “learned behavior.”
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Ignorant douche-nozzle much?
BULL CRAP.ASSHOLE.
i just love it when we vote people into office who don’t understand science
Wow!
Is it bad I read the headline and just started laughing?
does anyone know when they will decide about marriage in califorina
The backward, inbred asshole.
He’s pretty dumb
Yeah tell that to the neighbor next door to my parents’ house who died from AIDS after getting it from his girlfriend.
He better get checked him self
I like the word douche-nozzle :) hahahaha
HA! He’s pitchin’ a bitch about same-sex marriage? Well.. what about INCEST?? Seriously. Let’s get our damn priorities straight!
Simply put. Idiot.
Are these people really for real?
Can someone buy him a ticket to Africa to see the ravage of AIDS among people of all classes, ages and orientations? Nothing worse in than small-town inward looking imbecility in this global age.
what an idiot
WHAT A CROCK OF BS!!!
Its amazing how people don’t know their history about diseases and spew hateful crap like this…
Saw that on the news last night, what an idiot.
what an idiot!
Ignorant Jackass!
if he seriously believes this, i feel bad for him. its pretty damn funny tho
Well maybe HIS momma had sex with a monkey.
Pilots having sex with monkeys?? Ha! I knew it! LOL!!
That’s why they have a newspaper that shows everyones face who had aids……..they suck
Has*
what a twat.for want of a better word
AIDS is not a gay disease , it is a disease . Anyone can get it .
except when they have sex…
He didn’t do his research
But guaranteed 80% likely to get HPV from straight sex – even with a condom!
Another graduate of Dumb Ass U
its called fluid transfer- how do you think babies are made?
TN lawmaker claims his head is not all the way up his ass.
This guy is a Moron.
I wish I had never moved here. So sad. I agree with Paul….backward, inbred asshole!!!
He’s obviously just ignorant we should really just feel pity for him..not worthy of hate
wow considering that amfar did a study recently and it showed that the vast majority of women diagnosed with HIV in the US contracted the virus through heterosexual sex… i think u need to rethink your facts sir
and every time an idiot opens their mouth a little gay angel gets their wings
What an idiot. Honestly, do you have to be mentally deficient to be a state legislator now-a-days?
ok….tell that to all of the children who contract HIV through their mothers. Pretty sure it takes a peen and a poon to create baby times. Ignorance is not bliss, it’s dangerous.
Obviously went to the same school for morons as Gingrich…
people say this retarded stuff just to get there name in the news..Same way Madonna used to do it to sell records…
That’s sh–!
Douchebachery at it’s best right here people!
sad person
What An Idiot!! Smdh!!!
Maybe I should got have sex with him then….oh wait my viral load might not be high enough to infect the idiot to prove the point that uh duh there are alot of POZ females out there that got it exactly that way.
O.O WAT.
where the F did he go to school at???!!!! *shakes head* dumbass
Haven’t you learned….people only want to believe what serves their best interest.
Oh Good Grief! Who elected these kooks! <3 maria <3
……..WHAT??? tell that to all of the heterosexuals with AIDS. it is a tragic deices and anyone can get it so protection is needed no mater what!
As a woman in the LGBT community I find this outraging. To say a disease is limited to a community based on orientation is by far the most ignorant thing I have ever heard. I know numerous gay men and women and NONE of them have STDs. I cant say the same for my heterosexual associates.. Look at statistics and not your bias opinion. It’s one thing to be a bigot, but to be an uneducated bigot is ridiculous.
It’s Tennessee, people! Did you really put that much faith in their social development and knowledge of the world? From personal experience, I have yet to be impressed with anything out of TN.
Really? Wow.
It’s obvious this guy was dropped on his head as a baby, then he grew up and became a politician where he is in a position to let the world see how fucking ignorant he is. He is your political leader Tennessee, y’all need help with that guy!
Bullshit! Heterosexual activity is the NUMBER ONE mode of transmission of HIV/AIDS
What a monkey? who would do a f*cked up thing anyways.. :
So That Explains TN!
I don’t think I can handle this much stupidity so early in the day
Moron.
um… ok.. true definition of IDIOT!!
Keep in mind these are the people who legalized incest so long as they are first cousins
REALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!! PEOPLE !!!
This guy is a freakin’ R-tard.
What… an idiot.
Google it, the first thing that pops up is an anti-gay website, this guy is such a loser. He’s completely uneducated. The average lifespan being 45-46 years old, is an old survey, he also hasn’t noted that the HIV rate has dropped in the homosexual community. It is important that gay youth educates themselves.
Recently I was told by a co-worker that her “gay friend” who has just recently came out has been having unprotected sex with someone who has HIV. This friend of hers is younger. The “HIV infected” guys he has around him have been the influence hes had coming into the gay community. They told him “HIV is not a big deal in the gay community”… this is sad. I’m 27 years old, I’ve been out for 13 years. I can count on one hand how many people I have been with, and now I’m married. (Yeah it was legal, in California, at one time). My husband has only had one male partner (myself). At the end of the day, not everyone out there has HIV, misinformed persons may contract it. Uneducated may contract it.
I also do believe HIV infection runs pretty high in the African American community as well. They too need to pay close attention to STD education, as well as ANYONE HETERO OR HOMO BLACK OR WHITE Does not matter… EDUCATION IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
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Your Dumber than to two left turns!!!!
Being from the South, hearing this kind of crap all the time…it embarrasses me that I belong to the same region as this moron.
MORON!!!!!
I sometimes wonder if to be a politician you have to be mentally retarded .
Well maybe one day he will come up positive and have to choke on those statements, I hope not, but that kind of idiocy would be famous last words…
He is just stupid. And he has been elected! Who is stupid too?
And that’s funny because the first person to die of aids, was a German lady. Lol
WOW! Just when I thought I’d heard all the most ignorant comments on how to get aids/HIV, this moronic butthole douchebag opens his mouth.
Wow!!!!! Maybe his Sister/wife told him that. He said they are from Tennessee right?
What a dumbass.
Idiot
He is such a closet case
OMG where do these politicians come from? Can they really be this stupid or have there heads so deep in the sand?
or are they deeply conniving?
Yeah, sure, and AIDS can be cured by a berry found in the Caribbean. These people obviously do not believe in prevention of disease. They also do not believe in global warming (which was around a very long time before Al Gore, or in Evolution which has been around for millions if not billions of years.
ya, not true >_>
Idiocy & Ignorance. I wonder how this country even functions sometimes.
Ignorance like this should be cause for impeachment.
really now? *offers him a prostitute with aids* prove it.
he even looks dumb
What!? This guy needs some AIDS training!!
yup he’s the poster child “Why Counsin’s Shouldn’t Marry”
This is fantastic. Straight people go get yours! You good and AIDS doesn’t exist in your community.
And the gays are supposed 2 b the confused ones
Azzzhole an all the other names. For real a dam monkey? Wow go slap yoself.
What’s that moron smoking.
Whadda dumbass.
Fucking idiot.
Wow, talk about ignorant!
He’s stupid. Amanda Blake, gunsmoke’s miss kitty, contracted aids from her bisexual husband. She died from aids. So aids can be transmitted from heterosexual sex.
OH PLEASE , ARE YOU FOR REAL!?
LOL! This is the funniest fucking thing I’ve heard in a while.
another ignorant fuck!!!!!
Fucking retard.
another moron elected to office by other morons!
Tool!!!
Please don’t tell me this imbecile is college educated. There’s just no way someone can be that ignorant. Karma will get his ass for spewing such filth.
And monkeys fly and there will be a colony on the moon. And he can go there
This MORON should not be given a voice at all. This ideology is what is causing hate and bigotry!
THERE GOES ANOTHER NUT CASE BLAMING EVERYTHING ON ALL OF GAYS, MAYBE HIM & CYNTHIA NIXSON SHOULD HOOK UP?????
What a freaking moron… People who don’t know really shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
African americans are whom started the whole aids thing and yet they are straight ..
A US Senator. Wow. He makes a Snookie dinner party look like a Mensa Meeting. Who voted for him? I want names! Lol
DISlike!!
Is there no end to the bottomless pit these people speak from?
With all of these TN representatives talking, it’s making me feel like Maya Rudolph in that movie Idiocracy. When Senator “Not Sure” starts talking, I’m voting for him and making sure that people give plants water “from the toilet”
Well then please oh please get him in bed with a woman with full blown aids so he can get infected TODAY!!!
OMG it is all I can do to keep from LMAO! What an ignorant SOB! Where’s the duct tape. People like this shouldn’t be allowed to speak!
Are lawmakers in TN just not all there. I always see headlines about the dumb crap they say.
Say WHAT? How sad in this day and age such an idiotic lame statement would ever come from another human being’s mouth. It’s like….HELLO…WAKE UP already!!!! Wonder how happy the majority of TN voters are with this clueless elected official they voted in now?
He needs full blown uncontrollable aids. He really does. And he needs to stand outside in the cold, naked, holding his oxygen tank to his chest, while I LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY.
hes probably never been outside of TN.
ROLF !
Campfield is a moronic, backward, redneck, bigot. Anyone coming into contact with him should try to harm him in ANY WAY POSSIBLE!
I guess Campfield doesn’t know that over 90% of people infected with HIV/AIDS in the world are heterosexual.
I wish I could find the humor others have from this ignorant jerkwad. There are AIDS experts in TN who need to meet with this IDIOT!!! Stupid is as Stupid does… man-oh-man
Aids is a problem in africa and most of them are straight dumbass
He is a f’ing idiot. Working in the medical field, the majority of the HIV patients that come thru there are HETEROSEXUAL. Truth be told, he is probably a closet gay and scared to come out. I really feel sorry for him.
fucking idiot!!!!
While it is true, gay men can contract AIDS easier than heterosexuals… heterosexuals contract AIDS eaiser than lesbains do.
Amen @ Kim Bowers!!
Wow, really?! I feel dumber just from reading that!
Let me also say that I am from Tennessee. Born and raised. This ignorant bastard does NOT speak for all of us! Unfortunately there are always rotten apples to make the rest of us look bad.
TN where the boy’s are men and the sheep are scared.
What a Renaissance man.
Duh
I guess someone missed the common sense line.
what a damn idiot
Its a shame that i live in the same state as this ignorant senator. He needs to be impeached.
This is the kind of shit the Christian Coalition teaches and preaches in thier churches nothing but damn Hate. Now i know why i dont go to church.
I’m and airline pilot and I’m gay and I’ve yet to have sex with any animals. wow
It is stupidity running rapid with this idiot. IMPEACH !!!!!!!!!!!!
Just another republican Fool !!!!!
This man is either insane or very stupid!
This is such an ignorant (more like stupid, since ignorance can be fixed but stupidity is forever) and bigoted view. Research and studies have shown that the HIV/AIDS virus has existed longer that ‘patient zero’. Also please do not try and make this about race as well as sexual orientation.
This coming from a senator no less makes me feel so proud about the human race and our ability to continue to give these people the power to spit out their bigotry.
Lmao that dumb comment be made matches the dumb look on his face…wow really disease knows no sexual orientation …that like saying swine flu only affects people that eat pork ..what a retarded comment wow I am worried for America .
Ignorance is so very scary…….
Dislike what a fucking stupid opinion stated as fact. Wiw Tenn is stupid.
this is crap.
-_- Reeeeeally them please explain all the hetero’s walking into the HIV clinics.
uh…Mister Politician? you stick with that political stuff and let us scientist stick with the scientific stuff cause your just making an ass out of yourself with really false stats.
LMFAO……………………..
What a fool
In his TN family you only breed within the family…and animals.
HAHAHAHAHAHA LOLOLOLOL WTF have you been doing to your brain?
So give him a Nevada hooker with HIV and see how he does.
well educated??????
campfield, you red headed step-child goon, what man in his right mind would want to have sex with a primate. Maybe you think it was a chimpanzee, well they’d tear you limb from limb, they’re that strong, a gorilla, don’t even think about it. How about a regular monkey, well they’re fast as hell and pack a hell of a bite, you’d have to tranquilize any of them first and that doesn’t make any sense, just like your moronic statement. Maybe talking about having sex with animals reminds you of your younger days when you used to fuck sheep all day.
The caption under campfields picture should read: “WOW, what a big dick.”
What H.I.V. class did you fall asleep in? Sleep with an infected hetro and let us Gays know what happens. You’d be advancing science.
Uhhhhhhh HELLOOOOOO the first person ever Infected with HIV was a hetrosexual In the 20′s around there Read UP your Your HISTORY before blaming gay people..Thank youuuuuuuuu
TN Lawmaker:Leave LGBT Community ALONE!!!
buuuuuuulllllllllllll ssssssssssshhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttt
This guy is a “law maker” Oh My God!!so asthonishing that such a dummy is ” making laws !!!!
To Greg: you are an airline gay pilot and never had sex with a monkey??? Are you a ” real” gay????
Serouisly, such stupid comments from that Tennesse law maker
Better laugh than cry
O.O can we please round up all the idiotic people in this country and ship them off to the moon or something? smh
If Newt gets elected he plans on building a base on the moon and as soon as they have at least 13,000 people there they can apply for statehood if they want…….ROTFLMAO…..so I am all for rounding up all the politicians……of any party that can’t pass a psychological sanity test and score at least 100 on an IQ test and send them to the moon
It’s amazing what comes out of these politician’s mouths, ignorance, stupidity and preaching hate is more deadly than any incurable disease on earth.
Unfortunately, the people of Tennessee voted for this idiot to represent them, which makes them all look more incompetent and less intelligent to the world.
Str8 people never have buttsex or transfusions hmmmm
what a RETARD
He’s such an expert. Has he had sex with a monkey? How arrogant to make such a statement.
who would imagine the so-called developed country’s leader to speak such a crap.
I wish hin no ill. I just wish he’d go away and take his fellow moonbats with him. If he’s wondering who that might be, I have a list.
Wow, how horribly embarrassing for the state of TN that this moron is their sexual education spokes-person! Hopefully enough educated citizens will see this and vote the fool out of office
This man is a hateful horrid inhuman Dumb Ass!!! Are you fucking kidding me!? He Needs to be removed from office ASAP! I am disgusted!
REALLY!! wonder where he got his medical information
your an idiot
I live in Tennessee, but I just recently turned 18, so I haven’t had a chance to vote. Do they just put people in a room, blindfold them and have them play pin the tail on the elected official?! Because I’m not sure even Tennessee is stupid enough to elect him…