Knoxville Bistro Owner Boots&Bans State Senator after AIDS Remarks(PIC)

[K Gardner]

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jan/30/bistro-at-the-bijou-owner-boots-bans-state-sen/

(Sorry, didn't realize a thread had already been posted. As a Knoxville resident, this is front page news today!

Martha Boggs, god love her soul, kicked State Senator Stacey Campfield out of one of our most popular downtown eateries on Sunday after his most recent horrible remarks on gays and AIDS.

"I don't want his hate in my restaurant", Ms. Boggs stated. And added, "He's gone from being stupid to dangerous".

Campfield made news again last week after blaming the AIDS virus on men having sex with monkeys and calling the disease "virtually impossible" to contract via heterosexual intercourse. Campfield is best known as the sponsor of the "Don't Say Gay Bill", which passed the Senate last year and awaits a vote in the house.

If only every enlightened restaurant owner would take this kind of stand, half the republican lawmakers would be starving.





KUDOS MARTHA BOGGS !

[K Gardner]

1. If anyone doesn't know who Stacey Campfield is, here is an article on his Anti-Gay Bills

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/stacey-campfield-tennessee-senator-dont-say-gay-bill_n_1233697.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FPolitics+(Politics+on+The+Huffington+Post)

In an often belligerent and sarcastic tone, GOP State Senator Stacey Campfield, the man who spearheaded Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" bill -- which would ban discussion in schools of "sexual orientation other than heterosexuality"-- lashed out at arguments against his bill by comparing homosexuality to bestiality and making what public health officials would characterize as recklessly false assertions about AIDS, in addition to other controversial claims, while appearing on my radio program on SiriusXM OutQ.

- by M.Signorile on HuffPo

[TheWraith]

3. Being a man named "Stacey," you'd think he'd be less judgmental. nt

[K Gardner]

4. East TN is a world unto itself. An alternate universe where this kind of bigotry and

ignorance is applauded. But yeah, you'd think

[TheWraith]

5. I'm afraid it's not as limited as all that.

There's areas like that all across the country, even in supposedly "blue" states. You know how they say Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh on one end and Philadelphia on the other with Kentucky in the middle? Well, New York State could be described as Buffalo on one end, New York City on the other, Ithaca in the middle, with Nebraska in the filler.

[truebrit71]

6. Or Illinois...Chicago in the North, Springfield in the Middle and Alabama in between...

...

[Ohio Joe]

2. Awesome - K&R - nt

[lpbk2713]

7. "If only every enlightened restaurant owner would take this kind of stand ...

... Limbaugh would be a lot thinner."

[K Gardner]

8. Well, that's a Spot On Photoshop if I've ever seen one !

[dembotoz]

9. THERE IS A POLL ATTACHED TO THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE

please give it some love

I think i may have eaten there
last couple of years my kid has qualified for an event at the ut
we went downtown for lunch and that place looks way familiar.

i hope it was
i hope to go there again.