Oh no, now they are going to take down reality TV...

[FunkyZero]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028321125

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 12:50 AM

philosslayer (2,877 posts)

Chip And Joanna Gaines Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage
Chip and Joanna Gaines’ series Fixer Upper is one of the most popular shows on HGTV. The couple has recently graced the cover of People magazine; their book, The Magnolia Story, has been on the New York Times’ best-seller list for five weeks; and they were the subject of a long profile in Texas Monthly that credited them with revitalizing the city of Waco, Texas, where the show is set and where their businesses are located. The couple are riding a wave of success, largely due to their charm and appeal. Joanna’s design aesthetic — large kitchen islands, open-concept floor plans, and shiplap — is one of the show’s stars; Chip’s goofiness — his willingness to call himself fat, his sadness and terror when he has to deliver bad news to a client during construction, and his buoyant attitude — is the other.

They have built a small empire, and they are not done yet. They have a huge retail space in Waco, as well as a new magazine, the Magnolia Journal; they have a real estate company; Joanna has a paint line and a home decor line. Season 4 of Fixer Upper begins Nov. 29.

They are also, as they detail in The Magnolia Story, devout Christians — Joanna has spoken of and written about her conversations with God. (God told her both to close her store to spend time with her children, and then to reopen it a few years later.) Their church, Antioch Community Church, is a nondenominational, evangelical, mission-based megachurch. And their pastor, Jimmy Seibert, who described the Gaineses as “dear friends” in a recent video, takes a hard line against same-sex marriage and promotes converting LGBT people into being straight.

So are the Gaineses against same-sex marriage? And would they ever feature a same-sex couple on the show, as have HGTV’s House Hunters and Property Brothers? Emails to Brock Murphy, the public relations director at their company, Magnolia, were not returned. Nor were emails and calls to HGTV’s PR department.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/chip-and-joanna-gaines-church-same-sex-marriage?utm_term=.fmeWXRGmm#.uhrD
mNroo

Sad. Just another hateful fundy couple wrapped in a nice veneer. I wonder what their sponsors would think of their beliefs? I think Season 4 might be the last season. Here's hoping.....

Yea, buzzfeed is on to them, they are finished now.

Response to philosslayer (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 03:39 AM

Star Member JI7 (57,745 posts)
2. these types always seem to be right wing . there is this whole "ME ME ME" thing about them

with the focus on their family instead of the job they are doing.

you don't see the canadians being this way.

Response to JI7 (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 07:41 AM

philosslayer (2,877 posts)
12. I hate that too

I hate that too when people put their families ahead of their job. How else are their children going to learn that it is the job that takes precedence, not them

hmmm....

[Ralph Wiggum]

Oh noes!!!

[SVPete]

Look how well this tactic worked with the Robertsons and Duck Dynasty. FWIW, I think even the WashPost has published an editorial condemning BuzzFeed's anti-Christian bigotry.

[FaC]

Look how well this tactic worked with the Robertsons and Duck Dynasty. FWIW, I think even the WashPost has published an editorial condemning BuzzFeed's anti-Christian bigotry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12/01/buzzfeeds-hit-piece-on-the-gaines-family-is-dangerous/?utm_term=.9fdf1ada1fdf

Somewhat surprisingly the Post was not too impressed with Buzzfeed, However, I think that the reason that they were ot impressed was because they recognized that Buzzfeed just proved Trump's comments about the media...

But that does not stop Aurthur from writing almost 800 more words about the non-story. Her upshot seems to be: Two popular celebrities might oppose same-sex marriage because the pastor of the church they go to opposes same-sex marriage, but I haven’t heard one way or the other.

They know that the Gaineses and HGTV are going to have to come out with a public statement on same-sex marriage. They also know that if the statement is not 100 percent supportive of same-sex marriage, the network will be pressured to drop them.

Another concern I have with the story is that it validates everything that President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters have been saying about the media: that some journalists — specifically younger ones at popular digital publications — will tell stories in certain deceitful, manipulative ways to take down conservatives.

Enter Trump — the voice of all of the people liberals and activists have been shutting up for the past eight years. It’s no secret that part of Trump’s success is owed to how skillfully he invalidated the media’s authority in the eyes of his conservative followers. The message was very clearly: The media doesn’t like me because I’m conservative, and they don’t like you because you’re conservative, and they’re going to try to ruin all of us, so let’s just ignore them.

And then, like clockwork, BuzzFeed published a story proving him right.

The author of the Post article says it much better than I and is exactly correct...

[SVPete]

Thanks for posting the editorial, FaC. I was about to leave for a dental appointment and lacked time. The writer of the piece is gay, BTW, and about to enter into a same-sex "marriage". I've only started reading the piece in its entirety, and my only quibble so far is his reliance on polling data in saying that 55% of Americans favor same-sex marriage. The data might be accurate, but given the agenda-driven polls of the recent Presidential election, I'm skeptical of the accuracy of a poll having to do with a Lib/Prog pet issue. That said, the writer urges respect for those he perceives as a very large minority.

[Adam Wood]

I've been watching this unfold on Twitter for the last 36 hours or so, and be backlash has been BRUTAL.  Besides the WaPo article, even blind squirrel Matt Taibai (sp?) excoriated BuzzFeed on this one.  The amazing part is that their idiot editor-in-chief (I think) Ben Smith has quintupled-down on this utter nonsense.  It was pretty amazing: I was literally watching BuzzFeed's tiny bit of credibility ebb away right before my eyes.  Freaking everyone outside of DUmmieland and maybe the Kos Kooks have unloaded on BuzzFeed with both barrels and left them with utterly indefensible arguments.

The kicker is that someone found that Kate Whatshername who wrote the article (that Ben Smith obviously approved for publication) actually tweeted that she was angry that HGTV might not have ever included a gay couple as a feature of the show.  Three days later, she published her hit-piece.  So it's utterly undeniable that she went into this with a mindset of trying to write a hit-piece, and then she did just that.


Truly delicious to watch.

[Undies]

I will care about this urgent situation the minute Rep. Keith Ellison (D (muslim) -Mich) officiates at his first homosexual "marriage" like Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash) did back in 2015. 

[FunkyZero]

I will care about this urgent situation the minute Rep. Keith Ellison (D (muslim) -Mich) officiates at his first homosexual "marriage" like Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash) did back in 2015.

One would think they could learn a lesson on occasion.
These people must be secretly excited every time the SJW's start a campaign against them. I mean, how many times does Chik-Fil-A's profits need to quadruple as a direct result of the rebuke? The Duck Dynasty franchise was able to retire quite early and rake in a TON of extra cash... the list is a mile long. They are quite literally too damned stupid to recognize that America, as whole, rejects their ideology. But then again, when you segregate yourselves and live in an echo chamber, reality never quite obtainable.

[SVPete]

...
The kicker is that someone found that Kate Whatshername who wrote the article (that Ben Smith obviously approved for publication) actually tweeted that she was angry that HGTV might not have ever included a gay couple as a feature of the show.  Three days later, she published her hit-piece.  So it's utterly undeniable that she went into this with a mindset of trying to write a hit-piece, and then she did just that.

"Fixer Upper" is light infotaiment, not something super consequential. It's one of God knows how many variants of: pick a somewhat run down house; renovate it; decorate it; show it off. The hosts, Joanna and Chip Gaines are very pleasant (as well as very skilled at what they do), kind of a "straight man" and comedian pair.

But for Progs there's a lot to hate, hate, hate. The Gaines are from and in Texas, they are quietly Christian, they are college educated, they are very respected in the Waco area, they are being normal and successful on TV.

Frankly, I'm surprised it's taken Progs this long to discover and hate on the Gaines. Sounds like the CfA Effect has become the new normal, and Progs haven't figured out that picking out and demonizing normal will result in their being run over by the Backlash Bus.

[SVPete]

  I'm good at saying 3/4 of what I have in mind. The significance of this is not in the content of the show "Fixer Upper". The importance is that this tactic of invading normal people's lives in an effort to destroy them for their political and/or religious views must be crushed (it won't be stopped by any other means) by the very social condemnation it seeks to engender against its targets.