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Last week, openly gay US Olympic figure skater, Adam Rippon, expressed his distaste that Vice President Mike Pence, and Mother, I assume, is leading the US delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea:
“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it.”
Rippon added that he would avoid a meet-and-greet with Pence because of his anti-LGBT views:
“If it were before my event, I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren’t a friend of a gay person but that they think that they’re sick.”
Rippon blasted Pence’s ALLEGED “concept of reality” if he declares himself to be a “devout Christian” and yet stands by _____’s policies:
“If he’s okay with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘s—holes,’ I think he should really go to church.”
Naturally, Pence, well, not Pence, but one of his spokesbots, Alyssa Farah, has said that Adam Rippon’s claims that Mike Pence is anti-LGBT have “no basis in fact”:
“The vice president is proud to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics and support America’s incredible athletes. This accusation is totally false and has no basis in fact. Despite these misinformed claims, the vice president will be enthusiastically supporting all the U.S. athletes competing next month in Pyeongchang.”
He supports all of the athletes, y’all, which makes one wonder that …
Mike Pence ran a think-tank that published anti-gay articles;
Mike Pence attempted to divert HIV/AIDS money to fund anti-gay conversion therapy;
Mike Pence refused to protect LGBT Indianans from discrimination;
Mike Pence tried to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination in Indiana;
Mike Pence supported a ban on same-sex marriage;
Mike Pence railed against the ‘mainstreaming of homosexuality in the military’ after DADT was repealed.
To be clear: Mike Pence’s record is among the worst on LGBTQ issues of anyone who has ever occupied the office of the Vice President.
I don’t blame Rippon for not wanting to meet him. Though I bet Pence would be afraid to meet an actual gay person for fear it would yank him from his deep dark closet of shame.
Then what would Mother do?
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Adam Rippon Doesn't Want To Meet Mike Pence ... Do You Blame Him?
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putzy pence is a YUGE hypocrite! GO ADAM GO!
ReplyDeleteGo, Adam, Go! And enjoy your hard won time at the Olympics!
ReplyDeleteAdam should go to the meet-and-greet and, right before shaking hands with Pence, rub his right hand all over his body in the most suggestive way possible while saying, "Just getting as much GAY on my hand as possible" and then shake Pence's hand.
ReplyDelete@debra - oh suh-NAP, gurl! :-)
ReplyDeleteI think some of these nutty assholes like Pence can claim with a straight face (no pun intended) that they are not "anti-gay" because they think that they are trying to help the gay people by "converting" them or whatever. They will say that if you truly loved a gay person, you would try to help them see how wrong being gay is and lead them to Christ or whatever. They will say that accepting gay people for who they are is, in fact, UN-loving, because you're enabling their "sinful lifestyle" or something. They basically see gayness in the same way normal people see alcoholism. If you buy an alcoholic a drink you're not doing him any favors, you're just making things worse for him. I'm not trying to justify Mike Pence or his ilk in any way. He is a terrible person.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame him for not wanting to meet him. Hell....I wouldn't touch Pence to even slap the bitch silly.
ReplyDeleteI thought we were beyond all this
ReplyDeleteSocially Conservative Pence is so filled with hatred... but then that's why he sold his soul to the Idiot Jerk in the White House.
ReplyDeletePence is a putz. Rippon is right on.
ReplyDeleteSorry Adam, you should have taken the high road and met with the vice president of the country you represent . Instead you come off as a petulant child.
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