After Duggar Family Member Fires Off Anti-Gay Tweets, Nate Berkus Defends His Family

Interior designer Nate Berkus is defending his husband Jeremiah Brent, their daughter, and their newborn son after a member of the Duggar family fired off a number of anti-gay tweets regarding the couple's TLC reality show.

Derick Dillard, who is married to Jill (Duggar) Dillard, appeared on the Duggar reality series "Counting On" on TLC before being fired by the network over his views on transgender people, People magazine reports. But Dillard is apparently doubling down on his feelings towards the LGBTQ community, taking issue with TLC promoting "Nate & Jeremiah by Design."

Responding to tweet from the network on April 27, Dillard lashed out against Berkus and Brent, People magazine reports in a separate article.

"What a travesty of family," Dillard tweeted in response to TLC's tweet. "It's sad how blatant the liberal agenda is, such that it both highlights and celebrates a lifestyle so degrading to children on public television as if it should be normal."

A Twitter user responded to Dillard, asking, "Do their lifestyles affect yours? ....Errrm No," adding, "Plus this child looks mightily happy to me not 'Poor' as you describe."

Dillard, a father of two, responded: "They affect this poor child, as well as what perversions are celebrated. If it were adultery, I doubt a network would be so quick to focus on the reality of it as if it were ok," and added, "And that's a good standard for well-being? ...how they look?"

"So I guess we shouldn't have judges in our court system? Should we not be allowed to challenge what's best for the welfare of children, especially when their guardian chooses to be in the public eye and put a child in the public eye?" he tweeted to another user.

"I'm not bashing the people, I'm just calling out the public agenda at play and how a network chooses what they highlight," Dillard continued. "Christians should love all as Christ loved all. Take advantage of capitalism: boycott what you don't believe in, but don't boycott relationships."

Another user asked Dillard what he'd do "when one your children grows up to be a member of the LGBTQ community?" and Dillard wrote his family would "love them just the same."

After catching wind of Dillard's tweets, Berkus took to Twitter to offer a response to the former TLC star.

"My hope with having a show like #NandJByDesign on @TLC, where we go into people's homes and welcome viewers into ours, is that we can start to break down barriers & normalize the way our family looks & the way our family loves," he wrote, adding a photo of Brent and their children.

Berkus and Brent married in 2014 and have a 3-year-old daughter Poppy who appears on their show. The couple also had a newborn son named Oskar last month.