TN Sen. Stacey Campfield Compares Obamacare Signups To Holocaust Victims

Tennessee Tea Party Republican state senator Stacey Campfield just compared Obamacare signups for healthcare to victims of the Nazi Holocaust. In a post on his personal blog, Campfield this morning wrote, “Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory [sic] sign ups for ‘train rides’ for Jews in the 40s.” 

The Jewish Daily Forward, while not commenting directly, offered these responses from local Democratic and Republican political leaders:

“Senator Campfield’s blog post this morning is just the latest example of Tea Party Republican extremism,” said Roy Herron, chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. “To compare attempts to save American lives through access to healthcare with Nazis killing European Jews is outrageous, pathetic, and hateful.”

Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney also condemned his fellow Republican’s remarks, which he called “ignorant and repugnant.”

“No political or policy disagreement should ever be compared to the suffering endured by an entire generation of people. Those comments have no place in our public discourse,” Devaney said. “He should offer an apology to members of the Jewish faith immediately.”

Of course, there will be no apology forthcoming.

In a comment on the same post, Campfield added, “300 million Americans are at risk from government bureaucrats deciding who should be given life saving medications and who should be denied. Every citizen now faces the possibility of their tax dollars going to pay for a government funded abortion. At no point in our history have we ever faced a federal government and administration with a lower regard for human life, and that is something that I cannot and will not allow to go unchallenged.”

Death panels, the Nazi Holocaust and Obamacare.

Regular readers of course will remember just how much Senator Campfield actually values human life.

Early in 2012, Sen. Campfield actually told his constituents via a local radio program that it is “virtually impossible” to get AIDS through heterosexual sex. Hopefully, none of them listened. He later defended his remarks to veteran journalist Michelangelo Signorile. 

“My understanding is that it is virtually — not completely, but virtually — impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex…very rarely [transmitted],” Campfield told Signorile, adding, “What’s the average lifespan of a homosexual? it’s very short. 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,” Campfield, who is 43 and a Christian, also told Signorile. 

Campfield came to national attention when he sponsored a “Don’t Say Gay” bill for Tennessee schools that literally would have made it illegal to even talk about gay people or anything related to homosexuality. 

Speaking about his “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Campfield claimed, “[Homosexuals] do not naturally reproduce. It has not been proven that it is nature. It happens in nature, but so does beastiality That does not make it right or something we should be teaching in school.” 

“That bullying thing is the biggest lark out there,” Campfield also claimed. 

Heterosexual transmission of HIV is not “virtually impossible,” and bullying can and has lead to the deaths of many LGBTQ students. 

Senator Stacey Campfield is pro-life?   

Previously:

Top 10 Most-Offensive Things About Anti-Gay Tennessee Senator Campfield (That You Didn’t Already Know)

Jon Stewart: Stacey Campfield ‘Wants To Turn Tenn. Education Into The Actual Hunger Games’

Hey, ‘Homosexual Activists,’ Stacey Campfield Is ‘Not Here To Be Somebody’s Piñata’

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Senator Posts Image Of Pressure Cooker To Make Gun Control-Boston Bombing ‘Joke’

‘Don’t Say Gay’ Senator Kills Funding For Sex Education At University Of Tennessee