Twin brothers David and Jason Benham on
Thursday appeared on CNN to discuss HGTV's decision to cancel their
upcoming reality show.
Flip It Forward, which was set
to premiere in October, featured the bothers as they helped families
buy and sell distressed properties for a profit.
Network executives acted after Right
Wing Watch published a report on the brothers' activism.
The brothers told CNN's Erin Burnett
that they do not personally hate gays or Muslims.
David insisted that he has never
“spoken against homosexuals as individuals,” adding that he and
his brother “love homosexuals and we love Muslims and have nothing
against” either.
“The point of this is there's an
agenda that is seeking to silence the voice of men and women of
faith,” he added. “That's what all this is about. I absolutely
think any sex outside marriage is not healthy for human flourishing.
I think it's very important we set the record straight. There's a
difference between people and agenda.”
The brothers stood by HGTV, saying they
felt the network “was bullied” into reversing course.
“All of this media firestorm … was
too much for them to bear and they had to make a decision,” David
said.
Interestingly enough, though they assert they *love* homosexuals, David Benham had this to say in 2012 in an interview with anti-gay activist Michael Brown:
"We have the tools, we have the stones, we have the weapons, we've been
faithful with the lion and bear stories, we’re charging at this Goliath
called abortion and when we take Goliath down, I promise you, all of the
church will start coming out of the caves. The homosexual agenda is
next, tolerance towards radical Islam is next, we’re going to start
taking these Goliaths down, we’re not afraid anymore...'Our struggle is
not against flesh and blood but against the principalities, rulers and
authorities of darkness.’ We love these people and so we are not going
to allow the demonic forces and agendas behind them to destroy life."
1 comment:
Notice, once again, that they quote the Old Testament, yet they want to call themselves Christian. Notice how it's never about divorce and adultery, the failings Jesus was really concerned about...that would be too close to home. Anita Bryant found that out the hard way in the 70's. These uneducated bigots will too, but then, it's not my place to judge, and somehow I must forgive their stupidity. B
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