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Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery America’s premier purveyors of shiplap and open-concept living have found themselves in hot water with the Christian right. Chip and Joanna Gaines, the former king and queen of HGTV and now the rulers of their own Magnolia empire, have spent the past few days on the receiving end of some good old-fashioned Christian …

Christian hardliners have turned on HGTV’s evangelical stars Chip and Joanna Gaines for casting a same-sex couple in a new series where families live as the pioneers did in the 1800s. Back to the Frontier premiered last week on the couple’s Magnolia Network, the cable network they co-founded with Warner Bros. Discovery. Among the couples featured on the show are …