Appearing Friday on Fox News, David and
Jason Benham decried the gay agenda, saying its aim is to silence
Christians.
Last week, HGTV decided against moving
forward with a reality series already in production starring the
Benham brothers. While the network has not discussed its reasons, it
acted less than 24 hours after Right Wing Watch issued a report on
the brothers' anti-gay activism.
Appearing on the O'Reilly Factor,
David Benham denied some of the claims made against them, calling
them “complete lies.”
“They just said things that were
complete lies,” David
told Eric Bolling. “I even saw one that said 'God hates
Muslims' that I said. That is just a lie. I would never say that.”
But Right
Wing Watch did not attribute the quote “Jesus hates Muslims”
to David. The media watchdog was referring to the brothers' father,
Flip Benham, who leads the abortion-clinic protest group Operation
Save America.
Jason said the real estate company he
built with his brother has “served many gay individuals and we love
them just like anybody else.”
David explained that it was the “gay
agenda” that they opposed.
“Jesus loves all people, but he does
not love all ideas,” David said. “There's a difference between
gay community and the gay agenda. The agenda that we're dealing with
in America right now is an environment whereby it seeks to silence
those that disagree with it. And it begins with Christians, those
who would hold to biblical values.”
The men said they could not blame HGTV
for its decision, saying that the network was bullied into canceling
the show. They also suggested their show wasn't dead, saying that a
couple of networks had reached out to them.