Mike Pence Is Clearly Not Happy With Olympic Skater Adam Rippon Saying He Supports Anti-Gay Conver-

[TexasTowelie]

Mike Pence Is Clearly Not Happy With Olympic Skater Adam Rippon Saying He Supports Anti-Gay Conversion Therapy

Olympic skater Adam Rippon clearly had thought a lot about Vice President Mike Pence heading up the U.S. delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea when he told USA Today Sports earlier this week he would not go out of his way to meet him. And Mike Pence clearly didn't give a lot of thought about his response, but clearly he was angry that the nation's first openly-gay athlete to qualify for Olympic winter games knew enough about his anti-gay beliefs to deliver an educated blow.

Rippon told USA Today Pence "funded gay conversion therapy," saying, “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.”

Pence's office released a statement denying Rippon's claim.

“The vice president is proud to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics and support America’s incredible athletes,” the statement says, according to The Nation's Dave Zirin. “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.”

But Pence does support – or has supported – "conversion," or "reparative" therapy, that falsely purports to make gay people straight. Judges have ruled conversion therapy is fraud. Nearly every major medical association in the U.S. and many around the world have positions stating it sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) not only do not work, but can be harmful. There are too many cases that show it can lead to suicide or suicide attempts.

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/mike_pence_is_clearly_not_happy_with_olympic_skater_adam_rippon_saying_he_supports_anti_gay_conversion_therapy

[lunasun]

1. Thank you Mr. Rippon, do not normalize Pence

[Cha]

2. Good on, Adam Rippon.. putting

anti-Gay, mike pence, on the defensive.

Mahalo, TexasT

[jodymarie aimee]

3. athlete preceeds HE

looks like gay guy is saying that...you should clarify....

[JI7]

4. Pence is bigoted piece of shit and they will pretend like Rippon is accusing Pence

of being against Rippon being in the olympics itself . which he probably would if he could but they will pretend it's about that rather than his views on Gays and Gay rights.

[Raster]

5. Mike Pence* is the Spanish Inquisition in a Sears suit.