This is sad and infuriating

These people are disgusting, and I'm not talking about what they do in bed:

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.
“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.

Kenworthy earlier in February called Pence a “strange choice” and a “bad fit” to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics.

Listen here, punk: what has Vice President Pence ever done to "attack" the LGBTQ "community"? Are you talking about him signing the RFRA bill as Indiana governor in 2013? The purpose of that bill was to protect Christian's rights to conduct business in accordance with their faith. It would not deny anybody's right to find wedding-service providers interested in the business of a homosexual couple.

Speaking of rights, just what are LGBTQ "rights"? Are they somehow different from the rights guaranteed to any of the rest of us by the first ten amendments to the Constitution?

One last question: What does your sex life have to do with what you are in South Korea for?

UPDATE: The identity-politics jackbootery extends to the top official levels of the US delegation:

Yeah. Reach for the stars, Fox News.

The Fox News website was forced to take down an article Thursday for suggesting the goal of the U.S. Olympic Committee was to make the U.S. Olympic team, “darker, gayer, and different.”

And no, it wasn’t some random blogger. This was the executive editor of the site, John Moody.

In the column, which was published Thursday on Fox News’s website, Moody wrote, “Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger.’ It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to ‘Darker, Gayer, Different.’ If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work.”

UGH. So what’s your beef, Moody?

Oh, yeah. The Olympics committee apparently has a director of diversity and inclusion now, which is absolutely embarrassing.

The guy’s name is Jason Thompson (Yes, I just assumed his gender), and he made a loopy statement to the Washington Post on February 4 about the diversity of the 2018 roster, noting that this roster was “more diverse” than past rosters, but they still weren’t where they wanted to be.

“I think full-on inclusion has always been a priority of Team USA,” Thompson told the Post. “I think everybody’s always felt it should represent every American.”

I’m beginning to see Moody’s point.

Moody also scolded a USOC official for embracing the diversity of U.S. team, stating the official gave an “embarrassing laundry list of how many African-Americans, Asians and openly gay athletes” are on the American Olympic squad.

“No sport that we are aware of awards points — or medals — for skin color or sexual orientation,” Moody wrote.

I didn’t even see this list Moody is talking about, but it’s sounds exceedingly dumb, given that they don’t award participation trophies at the Olympics (They don’t, do they?).

Moody argued that Olympians should be chosen by merit and asked if the selections were based on “the best publicity” instead.

“While uncomfortable, the question probably needs to be asked: were our Olympians selected because they’re the best at what they do, or because they’re the best publicity for our current obsession with having one each from Column A, B and C?” Moody wrote.

“Sorry,” Moody wrote. “ ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ still works better than ‘we win because we’re different.’ ”

He’s not wrong.

Was Moody's way of expressing it boneheaded? That case can be made. But it is far from the main point here.