Flip It Forward, scheduled to debut on Home and Garden Television this October, would feature brothers David and Jason Benham helping down-on-their-luck families purchase a dream home they thought they could never afford. "In each episode, the guys help a deserving family find a fixer-upper and transform it into their forever home—with a healthy dose of sibling rivalry between the brothers along the way," HGTV announced.

But the website "Right-Wing Watch," a project of Hollywood producer Norman Lear's People for the American Way, ranan article yesterday denouncing the Benhams as "anti-gay, anti-Choice extremists." It highlighted the alleged extremism of the brothers and their father, Rev. Flip Benham of the pro-life outreach Operation Save America.

The article features a YouTube video of David Benham speaking at an abortion facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, the siblings' home state. In the clip, Benham mentioned that he had arranged for pro-life groups to give pregnant women free ultrasounds. "I just thank God for what He's doing in the city," he said.

They also organized a prayer protest outside the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

As another example of his purportedly radical views, Right-Wing Watch reported that David Benham told talk show host Janet Mefferd that "87 percent of Americans are Christians and yet we have abortion on demand; we have no-fault divorce; we have pornography and perversion; we have a homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation; we have adultery."

Such views constituted, in the words of Slate, "the Benhams' repellant and well-documented ultra-conservative activism."

The brothers were also criticized by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for their opposition to building the Ground Zero Mosque.

However, it was the family's opposition to same-sex "marriage" that seems to have flipped the tables on their TV future.

The Benham brothers helped successfully overcome the lobbying of the president of the United States to see North Carolina pass a constitutional ban on gay 'marriage' by a landslide. Amendment One, which defines marriage "between one man and one woman," passed by a 61-39 percent margin in May 2012.

"The family is essential to society as a whole," David wrote in The Christian Post at the time. "The design of the family—man/woman covenanting together for life, reproducing children, caring for and nurturing them to maturity, etc—is the thread that connects the world together and has provided the very basis of society since the beginning of time."

Around noon today, HGTV announced it was dropping the project on its Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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