David French writes this week about “Christian cancel culture” as experienced by Chip and Joanna Gaines, of Fixer Upper fame. The couple, in partnership with HBO, had devised a new show about families forced to go without the luxuries of modern life, putting the lot of them out on the frontier to shift for themselves and see if our modern families can thrive once deprived of the many systems and integrations that make our lives as pleasant as they are.
The sticking point for many viewers, myself included, is that the show features a gay couple with twin boys they acquired via surrogacy. As one would expect, the conservative viewership that the Gaineses (a fruitful Christian couple with a healthy marriage and several successful businesses) have cultivated over the years objected. Enter David French, arguing in the New York Times:
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