'Fixer Upper' couple get support from Benham brothers after media attack

Chip and Joanna Gaines, hosts of HGTV's "Fixer Upper," were featured in a media hit piece this week for attending a church upholds a traditional view of marriage. The couple gained the support of David and Jason Benham, who once hosted their own show on the same network.

Earlier this week, Buzzfeed and Cosmopolitan revealed that the Gaines family attend the Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas. The church's pastor, Jimmy Seibert, has preached that homosexuality is a sin and expressed his firm opposition to same-sex marriage.

Both articles questioned whether the Gaines couple agree with Siebert's teaching and whether a same-sex couple would ever be featured on the show. Buzzfeed noted that the show has fans who are members of the LGBT community.

In an interview with The Christian Post on Wednesday, David Benham described the hit piece on the Gaines couple as "another witch hunt searching to devour anyone who would disagree with their thoughts on human sexuality or on marriage."

David and his twin brother Jason once hosted a show called "Flip It Forward" on HGTV. The network decided to cancel the show a day after Right Wing Watch reported their Christian views on abortion, homosexuality, and no-fault divorce.

"The first phone call that Jason and I took after we got fired by HGTV was from Chip Gaines who told us that he was sick and tired of watching what was happening to his country and how people are just sitting back and doing nothing," David told The Christian Post.

"The Gaines are like millions of other Americans. They are not anti anything. They're pro-Jesus and they're pro-Bible because they know what God's best is for human flourishing," he added.

David believes that HGTV's advertisers would be targeted if the media does not succeed in shaming the Gaines family or Siebert.

HGTV has issued a statement in response to the controversy to assure its viewers that the network does not discriminate against the LGBT community in any of its shows.