Chip Gaines Hits Back At Critics Of Gay Dads Featured On New Reality Series
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The former HGTV star defended the inclusion of a same-sex couple on "Back to the Frontier" and pointed out a harsh truth about "American Christian" culture.
Former HGTV star Chip Gaines issued a pointed response to conservative critics angered by the inclusion of a same-sex couple on the new series “Back to the Frontier,” which he executive produces with his wife, Joanna Gaines.
“Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture,” the former “Fixer Upper” co-host wrote Sunday on X. “Judge 1st, understand later/never It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian.”
Though Chip Gaines’ post steered clear of specifics, he and Joanna Gaines have in recent weeks weathered backlash for casting Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs on “Back to the Frontier,” which debuted last week on Magnolia Network and HBO Max. According to press notes, the series spotlights three families as they “reimagine their lives as 1880s homesteaders, challenged to forgo the comforts of the present day for a more analog life on the frontier.”
Hanna and Riggs are based in Texas and run the popular Instagram account, 2 Dallas Dads. They share 10-year-old twin sons, Ethan and Lucas.
Chip and Joanna Gaines do not appear on “Back to the Frontier,” but are involved in the show as executive producers. The couple ― who are affiliated with the Antioch Community Church, a nondenominational, evangelical church based in Waco, Texas ― drew ire from some Christian conservatives who deemed Hanna and Riggs’ family “unbiblical.”
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