Chip and Joanna Gaines are responding to backlash over the latest show in their media empire. Chip Gaines took to social media on Sunday to defend their new Magnolia Network reality series, “Back to the Frontier.” The show drew criticism from some Christian conservatives for featuring a gay couple, Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs.

Chip Gaines is standing up for the same-sex couple recently featured on the new Magnolia Network reality show, Back to the Frontier. In a post shared on X on Sunday, July 13, Chip, 50, wrote, "Talk, ask questions, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never."