United States Olympian Adam Rippon has already said he would not attend President Trump’s White House celebration following the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, and now the same goes for the team’s visit with Vice President Mike Pence ahead of the Opening Ceremony.

Rippon, a figure skater who is believed to be the first openly gay member of the US Winter Olympic team, expressed his disapproval with the decision to have Pence lead the 2018 US Olympic delegation in South Korea because of one of the Republican’s perceived stances on gay rights.

“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?” Rippon said in an interview Tuesday with USA Today. “I’m not buying it.

“If it were before my event, 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. I wouldn’t go out of my way to meet somebody like that.”

Rippon may not have to make that choice — whether he’ll join his teammates during the customary meet-and-greet with Pence before the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 9 — because of a potential conflict with the team figure skating competition, but he knows what it would be anyway. The 28-year-old Rippon openly criticized Pence and the presidential administration, particularly a statement Pence made during his 2000 congressional campaign that “[resources] should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”

Pence also signed a bill into law while governor of Indiana called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has been heavily criticized as anti-LGBTQ legislation.

“I don’t think he has a real concept of reality,” Rippon said of the vice president. “To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he’s a devout Christian man is completely contradictory. If he’s okay with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘shitholes,’ I think he should really go to church.”

Rippon, the 2016 US men’s figure skating champion who earned his first Olympic berth with a fourth-place finish at the national championships earlier this month, was referring to Trump reportedly calling Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” during an immigration last week, as well as the LGBTQ community taking Pence’s 2000 viewpoint as evidence that he supports gay conversion therapy.

Pence previously denied backing the treatment through his spokesperson, and his current press secretary, Alyssa Farah, similarly refuted the notion in an email statement Wednesday to USA Today.

“The vice president is proud to lead the U.S. delegation to the Olympics and support America’s incredible athletes. This accusation is totally false and has no basis in fact,” Farah wrote. “Despite these misinformed claims, the vice president will be enthusiastically supporting all the U.S. athletes competing next month in Pyeongchang.”

The White House’s decision to send Pence comes four years after then-President Barack Obama organized it so several openly-gay former athletes served on the US delegation for the opening and closing ceremonies in Sochi, Russia. Nippon called Obama’s move “poignant” at a time anti-gay behavior was prevalent in Russia.

While Rippon will not protest the Trump administration at the Olympics, he said he would have been open to meeting with Pence after the Games are over to air out some of these issues.

“If I had the chance to meet him afterwards, after I’m finished competing, there might be a possibility to have an open conversation,” Rippon said. “He seems more mild-mannered than Donald Trump. … But I don’t think the current administration represents the values that I was taught growing up. Mike Pence doesn’t stand for anything that I really believe in.”