Chip and Joanna Gaines of the show Fixer Upper were the
subjects of a BuzzFeed article last year that depicted them as bigots because
they’re church members. Their response: “If there’s any hope for all of us to
move forward, to heal and to grow – we’ve got to learn to engage people who are
different from us with dignity and with love. Joanna and I have personal
convictions. One of them is this: we care about you for the simple fact that
you’re a person, our neighbor on planet earth. It’s not about what color your
skin is, how much money you have in the bank, your political affiliation,
sexual orientation, gender, nationality or faith. That’s all fascinating, but
it cannot add or take away from the reality that we’re already pulling for you.
We are not about to get in the nasty business of throwing stones at each other.
Don’t ask us to because we won’t play that way.”
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