Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) falsely claimed on Thursday that it was nearly impossible for someone to contract AIDS through heterosexual contact.And here's a surprise - the bigot is from Tennessee, increasingly one of the most racist and bigoted states in the nation. And a state in which the Republican party would be right at home in 1950s Alabama. It's amazing that Tennessee's leaders don't mind making a farce of their state on the national scene. I'll never spend money in that state if I can help it, and I'd most certainly never recommend anyone study, live there, work there or invest there. And I know plenty others who agree with me.
“Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community,” he told Michelangelo Signorile, who hosts a radio program on SiriusXM OutQ. “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.”
If that's what Tennessee's leaders were going for, congratulations.
