Breaking: HGTV Pulls Plug On New Anti-Gay Reality Show

Responding to great public outcry, HGTV has pulled the plug on plans to create a new reality TV show starring two brothers — twins — at least one of whom is anti-gay.

UPDATE: Anti-Gay Benham Brothers On HGTV Cancellation: Anyone Who Says We Hate Gays Is ‘Lying’

David and Jason Benham were to star in “Flip it Forward,” a show where they would “leverage their good-natured sibling rivalry to help families find a fixer-upper and transform it into the dream home they never thought they could afford.”

But when the media revealed that David Benham’s views on gay people were so far to the right of America, HGTV had a major problem, and announced the cancelation just minutes ago via Facebook and Twitter. 

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HGTV has decided not to move forward with the Benham Brothers’ series.

— HGTV (@hgtv) May 7, 2014

In describing the new show, now canceled, Dominic Preston at Frontiers LA today wrote:

Right Wing Watch reports that David Benham held a prayer rally in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012 which he said was necessary to stop “homosexuality and its agenda”:

“We don’t realize that, okay, if 87 percent of Americans are Christians and yet we have abortion on demand; we have no-fault divorce; we have pornography and perversion; we have a homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation; we have adultery; we have all of the things; we even have allowed demonic ideologies to take our universities and our public school systems while the church sits silent and just builds big churches.”

Frontiers LA also notes that the “Benhams’ father, Flip, heads up the abortion clinic protest group Operation Save America, and is responsible for gems such as condemning the interfaith Sandy Hook memorial, protesting in front of mosques, protesting LGBT pride events, stalking an abortion doctor and blaming 9/11 on abortion.” And in a separate, extensive profile of the Benham Brothers, Right Wing Watch this week reported that the Benham twins’ father Flip Benham “blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on abortion rights.” And more:

Flip’s son, David Benham, led a prayer rally — Charlotte 7:14 — outside of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012, which he told conservative radio host Janet Mefferd was needed to stop “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation” and “demonic ideologies tak[ing] our universities and our public school systems”

He told Mefferd that his brother Jason joined him in organizing the DNC prayer protest. 

We don’t realize that, okay, if 87 percent of Americans are Christians and yet we have abortion on demand; we have no-fault divorce; we have pornography and perversion; we have a homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation; we have adultery; we have all of the things; we even have allowed demonic ideologies to take our universities and our public school systems while the church sits silent and just builds big churches. We are so complacent, we are so apathetic and we are very hypocritical in the church, that’s why the Bible says judgment begins in the house of God. So when we prayed at 714 we asked God and our city to forgive us for allowing these things in the house of God. 

David also discussed his work to pass North Carolina’s Amendment One, which enshrined a ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions in the state constitution. 

In North Carolina, you know, we just fought for Amendment One, which was a constitutional amendment that simply said, this is exactly what the amendment said is the only legal marriage in North Carolina was between a man and a woman. We received—it was such a battle in North Carolina, it blew me away. I already knew in my heart as most all of us Christians in America know that we are in a very desperate spiritual situation and moral situation in our country, but it really hit home during Amendment One, so much so that when Amendment One passed I realized the only three counties in North Carolina that actually voted against the amendment were Charlotte, Raleigh and Asheville, our three cities. So we had all the rural areas and all the suburban areas but we lost all the cities. So I felt like, okay, it’s time that we have a citywide church service of repentance and that’s the reason that we decided to do it right in the heart of Charlotte the night before the DNC.

  Image of the Benham Brothers via their Facebook page