Yesterday I alerted you to my new efforts to raise awareness for civil rights violations in this country. Stacey Campfield, a white, male, heterosexual Christian state senator in Tennessee, was denied restaurant service on the basis of horrific racist, serophobic, homophobic and scientifically unsound comments he made his status as a religious white male state legislator in the south. I've launched a new campaign to bring attention to his civil rights fight and to make everyone aware of the struggle for fighting real civil rights violations white Christian male survival in the south. I did this because of his call for awareness he raised in his own blog, letting his readers know that he experienced "segregation" and that he feels Civil Rights Act of 1964 violations occurred.
The movement is simply called: Sit-ins for Stacey.
At The Huffington Post, I explained more:
Given the long history of civil rights violations against that unpopular minority (including, but not limited to, the destruction of their First Amendment rights on a staggering level), the intense, state-sanctioned campaign of violence and terrorism waged against this innocent minority relentlessly for over a century, and the systematic separation of these human beings from the rest of civilization through our laws and institutions, it was inevitable that someone would eventually take up this fight for the reinstatement of their civil rights.
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I feel your pain. I just want you to know I consider your plight to be the civil rights fight of my generation. There is nothing more important to me right now. Progress in this country depends on defending the rights of the least among us, and I think we all know who fits into that category best.
And then in a follow-up over here at Daily Kos, I expanded on it:
Because the struggles of white heterosexual Christian men are the struggles of America. If we can't help those who are clearly the worst off, those who can't even go to the first place at which they would prefer to have dinner, then who can we help? If we can't feel empathy for someone who, like any average American, doesn't see gay kids ever get subjected to bullying and thinks the idea that gay kids are bullied is a ridiculous prank played on Americans, then for whom can we feel empathy?
So, I stand with Campfield.
And that brings us to today, to the wonderful news that our movement is growing. We're taking our message of empowerment to the people!
At The New Civil Rights Movement, David Badash tells us he's in:
Called, “Sit-ins for Stacey,” it was created in honor of Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield, that lawmaker who most-recently was kicked out of a local Knoxville restaurant in response to Campfield’s comments about how HIV/AIDS originated from a gay guy “screwing a monkey.”
Of course, like the man it is named for, “Sit-ins for Stacey” is a total joke, albeit one far more funny and productive. And it’s the brainchild of Scottie Thomaston, a writer and activist for the rights of the queer community, the disability community and other minorities.
“I feel it’s time to take a stand on behalf of all oppressed white, heterosexual, Christian males,” Thomaston writes in The Huffington Post this week
And he's not the only one. All over, our fight is gaining the attention of the masses. At Think Progress, they are also telling our story:
- Rabidly anti-gay Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) is now being supported by a group standing up for oppressed white, heterosexual, Christian men called “Sit-ins for Stacey,” but there’s a disclaimer.
KnoxNews is pleading with Governor Haslam in Tennessee to call Campfield out for his ignorant and inappropriate comments. Campfield, for his part, is totally committed to the cause:
"Well, obviously, like I said, it's not a healthy lifestyle. It's very dangerous. The average homosexual, for a variety of reasons, has a lilfespan of about 24 years shorter than the average person.... Actually, there's, uh, statistics for insurance companies who do that sort of thing.
"Well, now they try and discredit it. They say, 'What about older men in monogamous relationships?' Well, I hate to say it, but most homosexual relationships -- I shouldn't say most. Many homosexual relationships are not monogamous.... There's statistics on it. And actually, where you get a lot of this information --. You can pull a lot of this information up.
"Look at insurance statistics. If you are a homosexual man, your insurance rates go through the roof, and the reason is because you have so much shorter life span.... Life insurance."
For serious. We already discriminate against gays a whole lot, even in insurance! So, like, let's discriminate against them lots more. It makes a lot of sense if you're a moron.
Campfield is the "We Go To Eleven" of homophobia Christian sentiment.
You can find these and more updates on the Facebook page: Sit-ins for Stacey. "Like" it to see updates!
As more people become aware of this fight of our generation, I'll be providing updates!