Chip Gaines appears to have defended his new series, “Back to the Frontier,” for including a same-sex couple after their casting upset fans.

Chip and Joanna Gaines face conservative vitriol for featuring a gay married couple on their new Magnolia Network reality show.

Chip Gaines, who previously came under fire for belonging to a church that was against same-sex marriage, confronted the backlash head-on.