Pence is referring to the USA Today reporter who published this:https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2018/02/07/2018-winter-olympics-vice-president-mike-pence-adam-rippon-south-korea-gay-rights/314167002/ …
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USA Today: “On Jan. 30, nearly two weeks after the dust-up, Rippon said that he was focusing solely on training for the upcoming Olympics. ‘I’m not trying to pick a fight with the vice president of the United States,’ he said.”
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Pence, apparently: Oh, let me make it into an issue on Twitter in the days before the competition, once Rippon is already in South Korea for the Games.
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And let’s not forget, Pence has a recent history of turning others’ concerns/protests over equal treatment into a thing about him:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/10/09/pences-pathetic-stunt-tells-us-a-lot-about-him/ …
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And here, from
@liamstack, is a report from after the 2016 election (when Pence’s spokesperson said his boss’s 2000 website wasn’t supporting conversion therapy — something many read it as having done) to give some background on the underlying issue:https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/mike-pence-and-conversion-therapy-a-history.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ …Show this thread -
And, here was
@cbrennansports’ original interview with Rippon way back in mid-January that started it all:https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/christinebrennan/2018/01/17/gay-olympian-adam-rippon-blasts-selection-mike-pence-lead-u-s-delegation/1040610001/ …Show this thread -
Brennan: “I emailed [the VP’s staff] on Jan. 17 asking what the website statement was referring to, if not gay conversion therapy. She did not send an on-the-record reply.” / From the NYT story, describing & quoting from the 2000 website, note the last sentence:pic.twitter.com/3Yt8uI7xuR
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The ex-gay stuff is of course very bad but Pence also defended countries that criminalize homosexuality -- and that was a lot more recent. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/07/21/24372449/mike-pence-once-gave-cover-to-regimes-that-execute-homosexuals …
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I mean, yeah. The conversion therapy issue is disputed, at least in part and 16 years later, but it is one of like a dozen (likely more) anti-LGBT positions he’s enunciated over time.
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Indeed. Mostly I just want to be like "don't @ the gays"
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Careful, you might be encroaching on Hicks territory! I hear she gets around....
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They’re so gross and hypocritical phonies.
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he is practicing to be prez since he knows the chump is going down......however, he has said what he has said....so it is not fake news...just a fake admin LOL
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