One Million Moms (OMM) is asking its followers to protest against a year-old reality skating competition, Roller Jam, for featuring LGBTQ+ people and allies. The show premiered in 2024.

The group’s latest press release criticizes executive TV producers Chip and Joanna Gaines for “their promotion of the gay agenda on families,” adding, “It is disappointing that Chip and Joanna are now glorifying sin. Promoting something that God defines as sin is sin.”

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“The show’s host, Jordin Sparks (a self-declared evangelical Christian), is an LGBTQ activist,” the group writes. “One judge on the show is Johnny Weir – a former Olympic figure skater, current LGBTQ activist, and flamboyant cross-dresser. Lastly, one of the featured teams is Haus of Sk8 (an all-queer skate team).”

“[OMM] finds it extremely dangerous to share lies and deceit (camouflaged as kindness, love, and inclusivity) while propagating what God calls an abomination,” the group adds. “Biblically, we are to love one another and speak out against sin.”

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The group notes that Chip and Joanna Gaines also dared to feature a gay couple in Back to the Frontier, another reality TV series where three families give up modern technology to live as 1880s homesteaders.

OMM’s plea against Roller Jam includes three Bible verses: Ezekiel 13:10-12, which says God will destroy places that lead people astray; Matthew 18:6, which says it’s better for a person to be drowned in the sea with a large millstone tied around their neck than to cause Christians to stray; and Romans 1:26-27, a verse that calls homosexuality lustful, shameful, and unnatural.

The group’s petition states, “I disagree with the wokeness and liberal agenda you are pushing on families in your new reality show, Roller Jam…. [The Bible says] it is extremely dangerous to lead others astray; there are consequences for these actions. My family and I do not support your new stand and will not be watching any of your shows. You will not have my support as long as you continue to veer away from scriptural truth.”

OMM is a project of the anti-LGBTQ+ American Family Association. It’s not an organization with a membership that can be counted, and its petitions never get anywhere near one million signatures. This petition has 13,450 signatures at the time of publication.

OMM also has a habit of throwing a fit anytime any company anywhere publicly acknowledges the existence of queer people.

Their past moral outrage has been directed at Parents magazine for featuring a same-sex couple, an anti-smoking ad that mentioned erectile dysfunction, Highlights magazine for acknowledging gay people, Scholastic books for featuring LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books, the Roseanne reboot for featuring a non-binary child, a Disney cartoon series for its brief scene of two men kissing, a Zales jewelry commercial for featuring a lesbian couple, the fairy tale drama series Once Upon a Time for showing a lesbian kiss, a 30-second TV ad for featuring an affectionate male same-sex couple, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for featuring trans and nonbinary performers, Indeed for showing a male couple, an eHarmony ad for showing lesbians doing laundry, a children’s cartoon with a same-sex couple, a sci-fi series with queer space witches, a Pandora add with a brief lesbian kiss, the film Wicked for being too queer, a gay couple in a reality TV series, and a non-binary celebrity in a beauty ad.

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