TNGA Sen. Stacey Campfield Rolling His Eyes During Introduction of Catholic Priest Before Prayer

[doeriver]

Run time: 03:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmDelPRJZE   Posted on YouTube: June 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: wataugariver Views on YouTube: 1   Posted on DU: June 08, 2011 By DU Member: doeriver Views on DU: 1609

 
February 9, 2011 - Video footage from the Tennessee Senate session of the third legislative day revealing TNGA Senator Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) rolling his eyes toward the ceiling during the "Minister of the Day" introduction by Senator Randy NcNally (R-Oak Ridge) for Father Bill McKenzie visiting from St. Mary's Catholic Church of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Senator Campfield's interest with the introduction of seems to perk up when McNally (who is shown speaking from behind Campfield) also introduces the wife of an Oak Ridge judge whom McNally had also invited into the Tennessee Senate Chamber (approximately time mark @ 0:48).

Part of a planned "Sectarian Prayer Within The Church of the Tennessee Senate" video series.

[louis-t]

1. He looks like he's in pain.

Maybe he has to pee.

[TrollBuster9090]

5. Funny you should put it that way. Looks like a couple of guys in front of the urinals.

[RVN VET]

10. Second that

2 guys just a peein' -- it could be a scene from a movie where ya got 2 men who were in a mens' room who are mysteriously teleported into the Tennessee Senate. The scene catches them just before they realize, with horror, that they're pissin' in public just before a prayer offering.

[Hangingon]

2. Eye roll? Looks more like he is checking out the Gallery.

[Beartracks]

9. Same impression here. n/t

[Althaia]

3. it's a case of missing the forest for the trees.

Why are they stomping all over the 1st amendment by having a specifically christian prayer ("through christ our lord")at an official government function?

[sulphurdunn]

4. During the Scopes Trials

William Jennings Bryant (may he rest in peace) was a genuine populist who became a laughingstock because he honestly defended the idiocy we now call fundamentalist Christianity. The difference between him and contemporary Tennessee politicians is that Bryant was a man of conviction and they are men (and women) of expedience. They suck up to the assertively ignorant majority of fools who vote in that state. I say this knowing that it will displease my wife, who is a member of the rational minority of Tennesseans.

[TrollBuster9090]

6. Well, Bryant should have known better than to argue a case against a guy who's married to a witch.

Or against Spencer Tracy, for that matter.

[sulphurdunn]

7. He should have known better

than to argue a case he couldn't defend either with logic or with science even though he won under the law.

[Hardrada]

8. Bryan

[Prana69]

11. You don't think you're just seeing something you want to see?

I don't think he is rolling his eyes. He's just looking up into a gallery or a balcony.

I'm against the christianisation of public office and ceremonies to the exclusion of all other religions, but let's not be so trivial and call out something like this. It's pretty juvenile really.

P69