Fight continues to remove Tennessee senator's photo from Vestal wall
Source: Gannett Press
VESTAL — The fight to remove Tennessee Sen. Stacey Campfield's picture from Vestal High School's Hall of Fame isn't over yet.
Speakers plan to attend Tuesday's Board of Education meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in the administration building off Main Street.
Some Vestal students, staff and alumni have taken issue with comments the 1986 graduate made concerning homosexuality and AIDS. Campfield, who sponsored his states controversial "Don't Say Gay" bill that would ban teachers from discussing homosexuality, made national headlines in January following an interview on Sirius XM radio during which he discussed the origin and transmission of AIDS.
The district has decided against removing the picture. While Superintendent Mark LaRoach condemned Campfield's statements as ugly and unbefitting a Vestal graduate, he has said it's an issue of free speech and that Vestal students are capable of challenging Campfield's statements on their own. In a statement read at the June 12 school board meeting, President Kim Myers cited the First Amendment.
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