Contents:
- CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
- I CALL BULLS**T ON HGTV STAR CHIP GA' BLOG ABOUT ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
- FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
- HGTV RPONDS TO CHIP AND JOANNA GA' ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
CHIP AND JOANNA GA AND THE ANTI-GAY NTROVERSY OVER HGTV'S FIXER UPPER, EXPLAED
But the Ga’ populary — alongsi speculatn about their offscreen relig beliefs and polics — has land them at the center of an anti-gay ntroversy.
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?
I CALL BULLS**T ON HGTV STAR CHIP GA' BLOG ABOUT ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY
Specifilly, she c Seibert’s ments that most LGBTQ people are LGBTQ bee they were abed, and that he believ ’s possible for gay people to bee straight if they m to dog so:. I’ve worked wh people for over 30 years — I have seen hundreds of people personally change their directn of same-sex attractn om a homosexual liftyle to a heterosexual liftyle.
Conversn therapy is banned five stat and Washgton, DC; the Amerin Psychologil Associatn stat that nversn therapy and ex-gay mistry (the ia that sexualy n be changed through relign) n be dangero:.
[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.
FIXER UPPER STAR ASKS FOR “SLACK” WAKE OF ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
Is the lack of gay upl featured on Fixer Upper the Ga’ choice, and if is, then is discrimatn?
Ameri’s gay muni are bet wh elevated rat of anxiety, prsn, substance abe, and suici. The roundabout logic French — that gay people would be ls sad if they jt listened to God, whom he argu has told people that ’s okay to discrimate agast gay people and make said gay people sad — is really somethg. There’s a b of glossg over of Seibert’s quot about nversn therapy and discrimatn agast gay upl (you n hear those quot full this 2015 sermon he gave rponse to the legalizatn of same-sex marriage), as well as generalizg the BuzzFeed piece wh the claratn that “liberals hate the Christian fah.
HGTV RPONDS TO CHIP AND JOANNA GA' ANTI-GAY CHURCH CONTROVERSY
As mentned above, 2014 the channel nceled a proposed show, Flip It Forward, bee s hosts, David and Jason Benham, were volly anti-gay. David Benham spoke to a nservative talk show September 2012 and said, “Homosexualy and s agenda... And as much as hurts to hear, this se, disagreement is, gsyg up homophobia as a simple difference of opn don’t feel or look as obvly offensive or hurtful as a Wtboro Baptist Church prott, but some ways, ’s even more dangero bee ceptive amg allows people to feel jtified their discrimatn.
So let’s do this: You start unequivolly llg out bigotry (however blatant or cintal may be) agast queer people wherever you see ― whout any of the “love the sner but hate the s” or “I re about you, I jt don’t believe gay marriage” bullsh ― and I’ll do whatever I n to help you on your missn. The shows slated for the new platform feature hosts om different backgrounds, cludg Black hosts like Jonathan Morris and Jaa Norman and openly gay terr signer Brian Patrick Flynn.
Rights, thanks to Fixer Upper uple Chip and Joanna Ga’s affiliatn wh an anti-gay church?