The Fixer Higher star is standing up for a same-sex couple featured on his and spouse Joanna Gaines’ new Magnolia Community present, Again to the Frontier, after conservative backlash surfaced on-line over the weekend.

Taking to X (previously Twitter) Sunday, Chip fired off a pointed put up calling out judgment in “fashionable American Christian tradition.”

“Speak, ask questions, pay attention.. perhaps even study,” he wrote. “An excessive amount of to ask of contemporary American Christian tradition. Decide 1st, perceive later/by no means.”

Chip added, “It is a unhappy Sunday when ‘non-believers’ have by no means been confronted with hate or vitriol till they’re launched to a contemporary American Christian.”

Chip additionally responded to a few of the feedback he obtained in response to his tweet, clapping again at those that stated they’ll not watch his present after he and his spouse selected to highlight an LGBTQ couple on the community.

“You may see no hate from me. I am simply unhappy. I can’t let my children watch your present now, since I am attempting to guard their eyes and hearts from the lies of the world—lies you are now taking part in,” podcaster Joel Berry tweeted. “Additionally, filter out a few of the on-line vitriol and think about taking to coronary heart a few of the substantive considerations and heartbreak from the Christians who make up your fanbase. We should always love the sinner—that does not imply we rejoice and promote the sin and take part within the multibillion greenback business devoted to destroying the household.”

“Do not be unhappy Joel.. loads of different stuff on the market. I am certain everybody will likely be tremendous,” Chip wrote in response. “BUT I sincerely respect the recommendation about taking a few of the considerate, heartfelt, encouraging constructive criticism to coronary heart.. and I actually will.”

Christian TV character Jon Root additionally got here at Chip, tweeting, “After I requested why he is selling homosexuality on his present as a Christian, that is how Chip Gaines responded…,” sharing a bible verse Chip quoted: “‘However in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. At all times be ready to provide a solution to everybody who asks you to provide the rationale for the hope that you’ve. However do that with gentleness and respect,’ 1 Peter 3:15.”

“I actually felt the hope, and gentleness and respect right here..,” Chip added.

When Root accused Chip of utilizing the bible verse “towards” him, the Magnolia Community co-creator was prepared with one other clapback, telling Root, “Ha.. I did not attempt to use it towards you, I did use it towards you.. it is fairly bizarre to have a life verse that has particular messaging and instruction that you do not even come near making use of. However it does appear to be you’re keen on the eye so take pleasure in..”

Chip’s feedback got here simply in the future after Evangelist Franklin Graham — son of famed preacher Billy Graham — took intention on the new collection for that includes homosexual couple Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs, who seem on the present with their twin 10-year-old sons.

“Whereas we’re to like folks, we must always love them sufficient to inform them the reality of God’s Phrase,” Graham wrote on X the day prior. “His Phrase is absolute reality. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one girl. Selling one thing that God defines as sin is in itself sin.”

Chip and Joanna, who rose to fame by their hit HGTV renovation present Fixer Higher, rebranded DIY Community as Magnolia Community in 2022 in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery. Since then, they’ve expanded the community’s content material slate to replicate a broader vary of voices and tales.

The pair, who not too long ago celebrated 22 years of marriage, function govt producers on Again to the Frontier, and proceed to play a hands-on position in shaping Magnolia’s imaginative and prescient.

The present, which debuted July 10, follows three households, together with Hanna and Riggs, as they ditch fashionable conveniences to dwell prefer it’s the Eighteen Eighties. Assume: no telephones, no energy, and no web.

Chatting with LGBTQ+ outlet Queerty on July 11, Hanna stated being a part of the collection felt groundbreaking.

“This was an excellent, superb alternative to normalize same-sex {couples} and same-sex households,” he shared.

“I am tremendous honored that once they have been selecting three modern-day households, they did select a same-sex couple as a modern-day household, as a result of we’re,” Hanna continued. “We’re your neighbors and your coworkers.”

Again to the Frontier airs Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on the Magnolia Community.