Hilarie Burton Calls Candace Cameron Bure Out Over ‘Traditional Marriage’ Comments: ‘Ride That Prejudice Wave’

Candace Cameron Bure explained successful a Wall Street Journal interview connected Monday (Nov. 14) that she near the Hallmark Channel to marque Christmas movies for Great American Family due to the fact that the radical down the institution “were Christians that loved the Lord” and that her GAF movies volition “keep accepted marriage” astatine the center. This didn’t beryllium good with many, including Hilarie Burton. “Bigot,” Buron, 40, tweeted erstwhile sharing a communicative astir Cameron Bure’s comments. “I don’t retrieve Jesus liking hypocrites similar Candy. But sure. Make your money, honey. You thrust that prejudice question each the mode to the bank.”

Bigot.
I don’t retrieve Jesus liking hypocrites similar Candy.
But sure. Make your money, honey. You thrust that prejudice question each the mode to the bank. https://t.co/X70aO4WIcB

— Hilarie Burton Morgan (@HilarieBurton) November 15, 2022

“Now they’re conscionable openly admitting their bigotry,” continued Hilarie erstwhile sharing a punctuation from Great American Family’s CEO, Bill Abbott. “I called this crap retired years agone erstwhile Abbott was astatine Hallmark. Glad they dumped him. Being LGBTQ isn’t a ‘trend.’ That feline and his web are disgusting. You too, Candy. There is thing untraditional astir same-sex couples.”

Now they’re conscionable openly admitting their bigotry.
I called this crap retired years agone erstwhile Abbott was astatine Hallmark. Glad they dumped him.
Being LGBTQ isn’t a “trend”.
That feline and his web are disgusting. You excessively Candy. There is thing untraditional astir same-sex couples. https://t.co/38XIg5XeMP

— Hilarie Burton Morgan (@HilarieBurton) November 14, 2022

The “trend” remark Burton referred to came from a remark Abbott gave to the WSJ. “It’s surely the twelvemonth 2022, truthful we’re alert of the trends,” helium said, per Deadline. “There’s nary whiteboard that says, ‘Yes, this’ oregon ‘No, we’ll ne'er spell here.'”

“My bosom wants to archer stories that person much meaning and intent and extent down them,” Candace, 46, said successful the interview. She switched to GAF successful April aft much than 10 years and 30 movies astatine the Hallmark Channel. “I knew that the radical down Great American Family were Christians that emotion the Lord and wanted to beforehand religion programming and bully household entertainment,” she said. She volition present make contented for GAF nether the “Candace Cameron Bure Presents” banner. “I deliberation that Great American Family volition support accepted matrimony astatine the core,” she said, adding that her films volition not beryllium “off-putting to the unbeliever oregon idiosyncratic who shares a antithetic faith.”

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The erstwhile Fuller House star said she near Hallmark due to the fact that “it fundamentally is simply a wholly antithetic web than erstwhile I started due to the fact that of the alteration of leadership.” Hallmark said successful instrumentality that they “want each viewers to spot themselves successful our programming and everyone is welcome.” Hallmark volition aerial The Holiday Sitter this season, its archetypal movie with a main LGBTQ+ storyline.

Candace Cameron Bure’s archetypal movie for GAF volition beryllium A Christmas… Present, which sees her play existent property cause Maggie Larson, described by GAF arsenic “an overly scheduled existent property cause and Type-A ma who takes her household to walk Christmas with her widowed member and his daughter. Maggie and her member person decidedly antithetic expectations for the holiday. Through a bid of transformative events, Maggie learns to clasp the crushed for the season.” (h/t PEOPLE)