“Fresh controversy is swirling around Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show titled Back to the Frontier. The show was produced by the Gaines’ Magnolia Network and premiered on HBO Max on July 10. The show features a male homosexual couple and their two sons. The Gaineses espouse to be Christians and have historically been very outspoken about their faith. They attend the Antioch Community Church, which holds to a traditional biblical view of marriage that excludes homosexual unions. The new show clearly contradicts this biblical viewpoint,” writes third place 2016 Georgia state Senate District 24 Republican Primary finisher and commercial real estate broker Joe Edge in a piece printed by the Augusta Press on Monday. This copypasta of Edge’s opinion piece wasn’t necessary so much as a concise intro to the “fresh controversy” that those of us living outside the world of Evangelical-themed reality television shows were until this point unaware of.

“To make matters worse, the show carries at TV-14 rating,” Edge continues in his screed, lol.

For those unaware the Gainses are the insufferable Waco, Texas Evangelical couple whose show Fixer Upper helped popularize the interior design movement that resulted in retail stores across the United States filled with candle holders, picture frames, and all sorts of other shit manufactured to look like they were dug out of an abandoned barn. They rode the wave of the whole “urban rustic chic”-something style from a single series to their own 24 hour HGTV ripoff called “Magnolia,” and through their clout and millions in net worth remained in good standing with the Evangelical America.

Until they fucked up and cast a gay couple in their new Oregon Trail-themed reality show

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.…

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) July 12, 2025

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show on their Magnolia Network spotlights a same-sex couple and their two sons, drawing concern from Christians who expected the network to uphold biblical values.

“This is sad and disappointing, because Chip and Joanna Gaines have been very… pic.twitter.com/LKMupgB6o3

— American Family Association (@AmericanFamAssc) July 11, 2025

It's not hard to understand Chip Gaines.

He's either a sodomite himself, or is close to one.

This is the case every single time someone becomes gay affirming. https://t.co/xriWSGN1Gb

— Evangelical Dark Web (@EvangelicalDW) July 13, 2025

In conclusion, sucks for the Gaineses and Evangelicals writ large.