Chip and Joanna Gaines Platform Couple to ‘Normalize Same-Sex Families’

Mega power couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines, of Fixer Upper and Magnolia Empire fame have launched a new series Back to the Frontier where three families, hailing from Alabama, Texas and Florida, all become 1800s homesteaders in the way-off-the-grid wilds of Alberta, Canada. All three families give up their modern ever-connected lives for eight weeks of genuine Little House on the Prairie living. Sounds like a great idea for very interesting television and family adventure.

But one angle on this seemingly family-friendly series has blown up the internet, and for a very good reason.

The Gaines have been very public about their Christian faith and home values. That is good.

What is bad is the Gaines have chosen to platform a same-sex male couple – Joe Riggs and Jason Hanna – who are quite a story on their own. In promotional media for this series, these two are very upfront about seeing the series “as a great, amazing opportunity to normalize same sex couples and same sex families.”

The great irony is this “family” of two men with twin boys would never exist in the frontier because there is nothing natural or normal about such families. Just a little digging into Riggs and Hanna’s own story makes that all too clear.

First, these two are attention hounds with their social media campaign and endless profiles including an extensive, splashy Dallas Morning News exposé. It tells their seriously disturbing anything-but-down-home story in dramatic detail.

Bottom line: Riggs and Hanna ended up with twin boys from the 43 fertilized eggs they procured. How do two gay men produce such a result?

The Dallas Morning News informs us the two men produced their essential male biological contribution while watching gay porn at a Forth Worth fertility clinic. That, and hundreds of thousands of dollars later.

The necessary female contribution?

That involved an anonymous 22-year-old south Texas woman who Riggs and Hanna obtained and paid through the fertility clinic. These two men had no interest in their boys’ actual mother beyond the contractual and mechanical procurement of her many, many eggs.

Riggs and Hanna then had to hire a womb to gestate their bought-and-paid-for designer embryos: a “gestational carrier.”  Talk about The Handmaid’s Tale. The two men first met their carrier – CharLynn, a 35-year-old African American woman who had a 10-year-old son with her husband – for lunch at a local Joe’s Crab Shack to suss out the arrangement.

CharLynn told The Dallas Morning News that gestating babies for others was her “part-time job” as the agreement with Riggs and Hanna was her fourth surrogacy gig.

This means these two boys, and the “family” the Gaines’ are platforming, were created at a profoundly unethical cost. The twin boys’ paternal contribution was initiated by masturbatory gay porn and financed by untold tens of thousands of dollars to a fertility clinic.

The maternal contribution was the twin boys’ actual (biological) mother being totally discarded as a for-pay egg producer on a massive scale; ultimately resulting in 41 very young human beings being discarded in some fashion.

Their growth from embryo to infant was a contractual agreement reached over cheap crab legs and french fries. On the day the designer embryos were “transferred” to the gestational carrier, CharLynn told The Dallas Morning News, “And my husband is standing over there to the side, telling them ‘My men! My men! Yeah, we’re going to have boys!’ And I’m, like, oh, my god … .”

Hanna and Riggs ultimately chose to implant male embryos, after toying with a boy/girl combo, because “we had seen two boys at a pool and really liked their interaction.”

Very serious men here, and those two boys are now deprived of their mother and her irreplaceable maternal love and influence because the two wealthy, attention-seeking fabulists featured in this publicity photo have very unique desires.

The babies in those wallpapered sonogram images are an enabling accessory to their self-absorbed cosplay of a natural family. After all, the reason these two men gave for choosing to be on the Gaines’ new series was because it’s “a great, amazing opportunity to normalize same sex couples and same sex families.”

Natural families never strive to “normalize” because they are normal. These men have an agenda.

Chip Gaines told the world on his X account on Sunday that Christians protesting their selection should “listen … maybe even learn” from family stories like Riggs and Hanna’s. Gaines added confidently, “I’m sure everyone will be fine.”

We did listen. Very carefully. It’s not fine.

There is no part of this family story that is ethical or natural. It commodifies the buying and selling, creating and destroying of children. It objectifies women’s fertility for cash. It deliberately deprives two boys of their right to and need for their mother. All these practices surely go against the values that drew millions of faithful viewers to the Gaines in the first place. Chip and Joanna should do some listening.

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