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Chip and Joanna Gaines built a brand on faith and family values — but after featuring a gay couple with two children born via surrogate on their new reality show — that’s now being called into question.
And now, comments the couple has made in the past are starting to make a lot more sense.
“Sometimes I’m like, ‘Can I just make a statement?’ The accusations that get thrown at you, like you’re a racist or you don’t like people in the LGBTQ community, that’s the stuff that really eats my lunch — because it’s so far from who we really are. That’s the stuff that keeps me up,” Joanna said in an interview with the Hollywood reporter in 2021.
“Of course, no Christian wants to be seen as hateful. I understand why that bothers them. But what I am saying is that they really care what the world thinks about them in this way. At least according to their own words, they seem to care about that,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey explains on “Relatable.”
The couple has also publicly come out in support of Billy Jack Brawner, a man they have close personal and professional ties with who dragged his wife into a polyamory arrangement with another man — before coming out as gay with the man.
“He was married to a woman, has several children with her, and now he has come out as gay and is in love with a man, and he has a caption on Instagram from 2021 explaining this,” Stuckey explains.
“I was a gay little boy who grew up absolutely hating myself; and I’m a gay man who is learning to absolutely love myself. I am so good. I’m raising babies who are so good with my best friend on the planet who is so good (understatement). I’m in love with a man who is so good. My life is so good,” he wrote in an Instagram post.
Joanna commented on the post, “Yes, you are so good. We love you.”
“That’s probably a good indicator of where their heart is and where their mind is when it comes to the LGBTQ issue,” Stuckey says, noting that they’ve chosen the path of least resistance when it comes to being successful as an influencer.
“There is a lot of money there. You will get the accolades. You will get the mainstream support. And you might even tell yourself if you’re a Christian, the more mainstream you are, the more opportunity you have to share the gospel with people,” she continues.
“And you might even see that God is giving you these partnerships with all of these entities and giving you money and giving you fame because He is approving of what you do, and He is approving of the choices you make. And that is a very, very dangerous place to be,” she adds.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines have been beloved by their Christian fans for years, but now they’re facing backlash for featuring a gay couple and their surrogacy-born sons on their new reality show “Back to the Frontier.”
The gay couple explained in an interview that they applied for the show in order to “normalize same-sex relationships,” but BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes it's much more than that.
“Their mission is to normalize forced motherlessness, which is the forcing of a child to live without their mother, and that is what is going on here, of course, and so they wanted to glorify that, they wanted to expand their platform so that more people could see this kind of relationship and more people could think, ‘OK, maybe a mom is unnecessary,’” Stuckey explains.
“‘Maybe a husband can become a wife, and maybe a dad can become a mom.’ I mean, it is functional transgenderism,” she continues. “Even if people aren’t actually identifying as the opposite sex, they are certainly identifying as the opposite gender role.”
The gay couple also claimed in the same interview that part of the reason they applied to be on the show was because they saw a flyer for the show with a gay couple in it.
“So that means, from the get-go, Magnolia Network along with HBO, they were trying to attract a gay couple. It's not one of those things where, ‘OK, they weren’t looking for that.’ They just stumbled upon this, you know, exceptionally charismatic couple, and they just said, ‘OK, we have to go with them,’” Stuckey says.
“That’s what they were looking for. And if you don’t think that Chip and Joanna had a say in that, or at least knowledge of that and confirmed that, then you’re crazy. Or maybe you just don’t understand the level of influence they have as the executive producers of this show,” she continues.
Stuckey not only takes issue with forced motherlessness but sees deep moral issues with surrogacy itself.
“You’re discarding all kinds of embryos, all so two men can do what God created them not to be able to do and that is have biological children without a mother that is raising them,” she says.
“This is a social experiment in which we are laying the well-being of children on the altar of adult desire, and there is nothing more disordered than that,” she continues, adding, “Demanding children who cannot consent to this motherlessness to sacrifice their innate needs, their biological longing for their mother in services to the disordered desires of adults.”
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Reality television stars Chip and Joanna Gaines are facing a public relations crisis after many fans reacted negatively to the featuring of an LGBTQ couple on their newest show.
The evangelical couple are promoting "Back to the Frontier," a reality television show from their Magnolia Network to be aired on HBO Max, but the show has already been clouded with controversy.
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Among the show's participants are Jason and Joe Hanna-Riggs, a same-sex couple from Texas with two children. The show challenges families to live as the pioneers lived in frontier times.
Evangelist Franklin Graham conveyed his disappointment with the incident on social media.
I hope this isn’t true, but I read today that Chip and Joanna Gaines are featuring a gay couple in their new series. If It is true, it is very disappointing. While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God’s Word. His Word is absolute truth. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin.
In 2020, a number of venues in Europe canceled Graham's evangelical speaking events over his affirmations of biblical teaching on same-sex relationships.
American Family Association Vice President Ed Vitagliano also criticized the Gaines.
“This is sad and disappointing, because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very influential in the evangelical community. Moreover, in the past, they have stood firm on the sanctity of marriage regardless of the personal cost that has entailed," he wrote.
"We aren’t sure why the Gaines have reversed course, but we are sure of this: Back to the Frontier promotes an unbiblical view of human sexuality, marriage, and family," Vitagliano added, "a view no Christian should embrace.”
Chip Gaines defended the inclusion of the same-sex couple in a message on social media.
"Talk, ask qustns [sic], listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never," he wrote Sunday.
"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," he added.
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That response was criticized by many Christians on social media.
"As someone who considered Chip & Joanna Gaines as my spiritual covering, I couldn’t be any more devastated," responded pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth.
"It’s heartbreaking to watch Chip and Joanna Gaines trade the cross of Christ for an LGBT rainbow flag. They, like many other compromisers, have decided that sin is more profitable than obedience," replied William Wolfe of the Center for Baptist Leadership.
"It is not hate to point out sin. Quite the contrary, actually. Chip and Joanna need to go back and read Romans 1," said another user.
Some on the left also used the occasion to criticize Christians.
"The backlash against Chip and Joanna Gaines proves yet again that the hardest thing for christians to do is actually behave like Christ," responded actor Jody Dean.
However, in 2021, the Gaineses were hit with criticism from the left when they donated money to a local school board candidate who had spoken out against critical race theory. She also was Chip Gaines' sister.
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