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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Episcopalian. The Church of the High Holy Anus and the Sainted Rectal Prolapse.
What would Brian Boitano do?
I notice that everyone is required not only to buy into the homosexual agenda but to embrace it and celebrate it as well.
Failure to do so give the liberal community license to demonize and destroy you if possible.
Sick of the cow towing to all things liberal.
A gay male figure skater. What a surprise.
i hope he doesn’t compromise a unified face for the team. And that he wins us a gold. (Or that Chen does and Rippon can win silver.) Prayers for our incredible VP in the meantime.
He sounds like a whiny little fag,Jim.
So he turns down a time to act civil and thinks people will not notice.
I know seriously..what next, gay gymnasts LOL
Another Bloody Drama “Queen”, and just one more reason I will not be watching the PC, Corrupt Olympics. The Olympics, The Real Amateur Olympics died a long time ago.
Or gay divers?
Do I see Chapstick?
Is that him?
Agreed. Officials messing with passports is bad government.
Hire someone to put a kilo of cocaine in his luggage and doctor his passport with some whiteout. Slip him a mickey Finn, and while he is passed out in the holding cell, tattoo “Chil Sung Pa men wear Japanese female underwear!” on his forehead.
Heck, getting sodomized by a bunch of Korean prison gang members in a vat of Japanese beetles is probably his fantasy anyway.
Typical lefty ... throw stones but then do nothing to reach some sort of understanding.
Throw him off the team.
Yeah like Greg Luganis
* Respect the Office if you can't the man.
* Be thankful that his parents has the disposable income in the freeist nation on the planet to pursue his dream that can cost somewhere between a high end sports car to the price of an exotic per year at his level.
* Be thankful that he didn't grow up in Iran, follow that one to it's natural conclusion.
Be thankful for:
He lives in a country with running water, hot showers, a toilet that isn't a Hole in the ground and he has ample food, not to mention the best coaches and training bar none. I read recently something close to 50 countries that fall into a category that might denote they resemble what certain Dem Senators accused PDJT of calling them...
Johnny Weir is a very flamboyant and intelligent commentator who works with Tara Lipinski at skating events. He doesn’t hide his sexuality but never speaks of it. I enjoy listening and watching these two analysts. Johnny was a pretty damned good skater too!
I will make sure to watch him as a falls on his a## and loses
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