2016: The pastor of the couple preached anti-LGBT beliefs.
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2016 BuzzFeed published a reportFollowing a service, Chip and Joanna Gaines entered Antioch Community Church’s church and its pastor, Jimmy Seibert. VideoThe couple filmed together, in which he called the Gaineses his. “good friends.”
BuzzFeed claims that Seibert explicitly opposed same-sex marital in a sermon he preached following legalization of the practice in 2015.
“This is a clear biblical admonition. So if someone were to say, ‘Marriage is defined in a different way,’ let me just say: They are wrong,”BuzzFeed reports that Seibert spoke in his sermon. “God defined marriage, not you and I. God defined masculine and feminine, male and female, not you and I.”He continued to state that “homosexuality is a sin.”
BuzzFeed’s article noted that the Gaineses have never had a same-sex pair on their pages. “Fixer Upper.”Discovery+ renewed the show in 2021. However, a same-sex pair has not been featured as of this writing.
BuzzFeed reported, HGTV released a statement in response to the article’s publication that stated: “We don’t discriminate against members of the LGBT community in any of our shows. HGTV is proud to have a crystal clear, consistent record of including people from all walks of life in its series.”
According to Good HousekeepingChip replied to the article via a blog post, which is no longer available on the Magnolia website.
“Joanna and I have personal convictions,”The blog post was written by Good Housekeeping. “One of them is this: we care about you for the simple fact that you are a person, our neighbor on planet earth. It’s not about what color your skin is, how much money you have in the bank, your political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender, nationality or faith.”
Joanna appeared to address the allegations in a 2021 article by The Hollywood Reporter.
“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,”According to The Hollywood Reporter, she said so.