Posted on 02/07/2018 10:08:31 AM PST by markomalley
Team USA figure skater Adam Rippon reportedly turned down an offer to take part in a conversation with Vice President Mike Pence just hours after the openly gay athlete slammed Pence's anti-LGBT policies and President Trump's comments about African countries.
Rippon had lambasted the vice president's highly visible role at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in an interview with USA Today published last month. Pence has been considered an opponent of the LGBT community after he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as governor of Indiana.
When asked about Pence's role in leading the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies, Rippon responded to the outlet, "You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I'm not buying it."
"I don't think he has a real concept of reality," Rippon told the newspaper. "To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory. If he's OK with what's being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called 'sh*tholes,' I think he should really go to church."
Rippon's initial criticism of Pence drew a sharp rebuke from his press secretary, Alyssa Farah, who called some of his statements "totally false" and that they had "no basis in fact."
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Maybe he’s advertising.
Trump’s “African” comments
The s***hole stuff these “celebrities” worry about. LOL Pence dodged a bullet
“I don’t think he has a real concept of reality,” Rippon told the newspaper. “
So “gay conversion therapy” is just a myth? Is that it, Rippon?
Bring home LEAD, will ya?
Yet another reason not to watch the Olympics.
It would be fine with me if the US team came home empty handed.
I think it’s what they do...kind of like a form of Freudian thumbsucking
..belch
right. Johnny was a very hard worker with his skating. However, while he competed, although he was pretty obvious...he never spoke of it nor did he make it an issue while he was competing. As for this other guy, you can just see the change in mentality from even just a few years ago. People these days think everything is all about them.
Chen is in his own zone GS_Rose.
This young man is the Michael Jordan of figure skating X 10.
Quads at will, does anyone here on FR get what it takes to get a single, then double, then triple on some of these jumps? Especially the Axle?
Even more so he makes it look easy. That is a sign of a skating champion.
He is a once in a lifetime phenom, enjoy every minute of his skates, I hope he understands his blessings from G-d...
I don't see how he doesn't take the Gold, unless he is hurt of has a major major loss of confidence or adrenaline control...
I heard an audio tape today of some transvestite screaming at some actress at a public forum for some perceived slight.
The transvestite was shouting at the top of it’s lungs but the actress outcrazied him , going OFF and cursing a blue streak of SJW nonsense and obscenities.
Damn funny stuff.
I think her name was Rose McGowan.
I am dumbfounded by the left that equats Christianity with hatred of homosexuals...
A believer like Pence doesn’t hate them just their lifestyles...
Haha . . . Rose McGowan was like the first to go off on FatHarv, Damon, and the rest of the Hollyweird hypocrites
What is this child-molesting-faggot, a skater? Figures.
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