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Title: Faggot US Olympians dig in on feud with vice president: 'Eat your heart out, Pence'
Source:
The Hill
URL Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... -vice-president-eat-your-heart
Published: Feb 10, 2018
Author: Avery Anapol
Post Date: 2018-02-10 08:47:08 by IbJensen
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Views: 2827
Comments: 40
The first two openly gay male U.S. winter Olympians are doubling down on their feud with Vice President Pence over his record on LGBTQ rights.
Freeskier Gus Kenworthy posted a photo on Instagram of himself and figure skater Adam Rippon with a caption that calls out Pence, who is leading the U.S. delegation to the 2018 Olympics, by name. Rippon was named to the U.S. Olympic team first, making history as the first openly gay man to represent the country in the Winter Olympics. Kenworthy was named to the team a few weeks later.
“The Opening Ceremony is a wrap and the 2018 Winter Olympic Gaymes are officially under way!” Kenworthy wrote. “I feel incredibly honored to be here in Korea competing for the US and I'm so proud to be representing the LGBTQ community alongside this amazing guy! Eat your heart out, Pence.”
He also used the hashtag “TeamUSGay,” adding American flag and Pride flag emojis.
Kenworthy earlier in February called Pence a “strange choice” and a “bad fit” to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics.
“To have somebody leading the delegation that’s directly attacked the LGBTQ community, and a Cabinet in general that just sort of stands against us and has tried to do things to set us back, it just seems like a bad fit,” Kenworthy said.
Rippon has been outspoken about his views on Pence and President Trump, saying in an interview earlier this year that he would decline an invitation to the White House because he doesn’t think he would be “welcome” as a gay athlete.
“I don’t think the current administration represents the values that I was taught growing up,” Rippon said. “Mike Pence doesn’t really stand for anything that I believe in.”
As the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang began, it was reported that Rippon declined a meeting with Pence, which the vice president’s office, Rippon and Rippon’s mother all denied.
Pence tweeted that the report was “fake news” and that he supports all U.S. athletes at the Olympics.
Pence’s record on LGBTQ rights, including signing a religious freedom law as Indiana governor that many said would have legalized anti-gay discrimination, has made him a top adversary of the gay community.
Poster Comment:
Why send perverts to international games to represent this nation and to continually hack at an honorable vice=president. Any right-thinking person realizes that homosexuals are an abomination and anathema to an ordered and polite society.(1 image)
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#1. To: IbJensen (#0)
They should be cut from the team for their childish behavior. They will probably be dead in a few years from aids. It will not be a loss.
My first thought. AIDS or suicide. My question is, why is it so important for them to identiy themselves by their sexuality? Why not "Americans"? Or "Olympic athletes"? How is the country supposed to unite when these morons insist on Balkanizing themselves with their identity politics?
#4. To: misterwhite (#2)
You mean you don't go around telling everyone your favorite positions. Hmm me neither.
How else are they to get movie and book contracts,bit parts on tv shows,sell out tickets for public appearances,etc,etc,etc? What they are doing in actuality is pimping out America and the Olympic Games for personal gain.
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
They will probably be dead in a few years from aids.
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#13. To: misterwhite (#2)
My question is, why is it so important for them to identiy themselves by their sexuality?
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