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US Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon turned down a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence after criticizing him for his stance on gay rights, USA Today reported Wednesday. After reading an interview in which Rippon criticized Pence, the vice president's staff asked the US Olympic Committee to set up a conversation between the athlete and the politician, which Rippon ultimately declined. Last month, Rippon, who is one of two openly gay American Olympians at the Games, blasted the White House for tapping Pence to lead the official US delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic opening ceremony. "You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?" said Rippon. As governor of Indiana, Pence signed the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2015, which allowed business to turn away gay and lesbian customers in the name of religious freedom.

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