Contents:
- I CALL BULLS**T ON HGTV STAR CHIP GA' BLOG ABOUT ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
- CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
- FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
- CHIP GA CALLS FOR "RPECT" AMIDST HGTV GAY SNDAL
- WERE 'FIXER UPPER' STARS CHIP AND JOANNA GA OUTED AS ANTI-GAY?
I CALL BULLS**T ON HGTV STAR CHIP GA' BLOG ABOUT ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
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CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
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FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
In particular, their fah and their beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights have e to qutn due to the anti-gay views held by the pastor of their church. BuzzFeed brought up qutns about the Ga’ pastor and why Fixer Upper never featur gay upl. And why hasn’t Fixer Upper ever featured a gay uple while other HGTV shows have — is bee the hosts believe what Seibert preach?
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CHIP GA CALLS FOR "RPECT" AMIDST HGTV GAY SNDAL
[S]uch efforts [nversn therapy or ex-gay mistry] have ser potential to harm young people bee they prent the view that the sexual orientatn of lbian, gay, and bisexual youth is a mental illns or disorr, and they often ame the abily to change one’s sexual orientatn as a personal and moral failure. What we do know is that there hasn’t been a gay uple featured on any of Fixer Upper’s 40-pl episos to date (the upl featured also tend to be whe); that fact was the apparent impet for Aurthur’s article. Is the lack of gay upl featured on Fixer Upper the Ga’ choice, and if is, then is discrimatn?
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WERE 'FIXER UPPER' STARS CHIP AND JOANNA GA OUTED AS ANTI-GAY?
Rights, thanks to Fixer Upper uple Chip and Joanna Ga’s affiliatn wh an anti-gay church? It was a brief, bizarre, and uproar bate that largely wound up beg more about the gay-marriage bate self than the Ga—and at the time, back December, the uple cled to ment.