"[7] As of 2006, felons were eligible to vote in Tennessee as long as they are not delinquent on any payments of child support or victim restitution.
[9] Campfield said he wanted people to be able to find out how many abortions were being performed in Tennessee and to note the loss of human lives.
[10] In 2008, Campfield sponsored a bill requiring public colleges in Tennessee to allow their full-time employees with state-issued handgun-carry permits to carry their handguns on campus.
[12] Also in 2008, Campfield proposed a bill to ban teachers from teaching as part of the lesson plan about homosexuality in Tennessee's public elementary and middle schools,[13] saying that the topic should only be discussed by each student's family.
[3] His opponent, Democrat Randy Walker, had openly solicited support from moderate Republicans in the November election but was defeated 37–53%.
Campfield's sponsorship was seen as largely 'carrying water' for Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey in whose district one of the groups also resides and whose previous state representative Nathan Vaughn initiated the legislation in 2008.
[32] Lillian Faderman and Harvard historian Ian Lekus agreed it encouraged dishonesty and could lead to further suicide among LGBT youth.
Many gay rights advocates believed this information could result in the disclosure of a child's sexual orientation to their parents.
Eight-year-old Aamira Fetuga followed him around Capitol Hill with a signed petition opposing the bill while asking him questions and sharing her concerns.
[40] Campfield has appeared or been quoted on multiple national, international news broadcasts and media outlets for his legislation as well as his outspoken, and often creative conservative views.
"The View", Comedy Central's "The Daily Show", "The Colbert Report" allegedly, "South Park" which had an episode regarding his exclusion from the Black Caucus, Rush Limbaugh, Allan Colmes, Michael Reagan, USA Today, NewsWeek, The Washington Times, as well as others.
[41][42] On October 31, 2009, Campfield attended the Halloween Volunteers football game with the University of South Carolina at the University of Tennessee Neyland Stadium where he was briefly questioned, searched, and detained allegedly after the mother of two young girls complained that the presence of a masked Campfield had allegedly frightened two young girls.
Several people accused UT legal council Ron Leadbetter of having a report made weeks later just to use in his campaign to unseat Campfield for the state house that same year.
[45] Medical authority sources disagree: "When risk is assessed per act of unprotected vaginal intercourse" (between an infected male and a female partner), "the chance of HIV transmission is estimated to be between 1 in 500 and 1 in 1000.
Although there is no definitive origin or "Patient 0" many assume, contrary to Campfield's statement, HIV's various distinct strains may possibly have come about in humans on numerous separate occasions because of the handling and consumption of bushmeat infected with Simian immunodeficiency virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
"[49] On January 29, 2012, the owner of the cafe Bistro at the Bijou, Martha Boggs in Knoxville asked Stacey Campfield to leave the restaurant as a stand for gay rights.
[50] He was asked to leave because of his assertion that HIV is seldom transmitted through heterosexual sex and because Boggs believed his comments to be homophobic.
Since March 2005, Campfield has maintained a public blog[51] that includes a warning that any quotation from it for print will be charged at "$1,000 USD per word".
In 2012 Campfield authored legislation requiring suspicion based drug testing for those receiving cash government benefits.