Candace Cameron Bure calls backlash for her 'traditional marriage' comments attempts to 'assassinate my character' - Yahoo Entertainment

Candace Cameron Bure is defending herself, aft she was criticized connected aggregate fronts for saying that she ditched Hallmark to spouse with faith-based web Great American Family due to the fact that it promises to "keep accepted marriage" — betwixt a antheral and pistillate — "at the core."

"I would similar to code my comments connected Great American Family's programming arsenic reported successful the Wall Street Journal," she wrote Wednesday connected societal media. (Read the afloat substance of her connection below.) "All of you who cognize me, cognize beyond question that I person large emotion and affection for each people. It perfectly breaks my bosom that anyone would ever deliberation I intentionally would privation to offend and wounded anyone. It saddens maine that the media is often seeking to disagreement us, adjacent astir a taxable arsenic comforting and merry arsenic Christmas movies. But, fixed the toxic clime successful our civilization close now, I shouldn't beryllium surprised. We request Christmas much than ever."

Characterizing herself arsenic a "devoted Christian," the histrion said she said her comments were filtered done her spiritual beliefs.

"To the members of the media liable for utilizing this accidental to instrumentality flames of struggle and hate, I person a elemental message: I emotion you anyway. To those who hatred what I worth and who are attacking maine online: I emotion you. To those who person tried to assassinate my character: I emotion you. To everyone speechmaking this, of immoderate race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling, I emotion you. ... And successful the sole information of axenic love, I anticipation you'll articulation maine successful sharing God’s anticipation for each the satellite this Christmas season. Call that my Christmas wish."

The Full House alum, 46, had a long-running narration making vacation movies for Hallmark, but near up of it releasing its archetypal gay-led vacation film. She made her arguable comments successful a Wall Street Journal communicative published Monday, portion promoting her upcoming Christmas movie connected GAF.

"My bosom wants to archer stories that person much meaning and intent and extent down them," said Bure, who's besides been named main originative serviceman astatine the company. "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."

Jonathan Bennett, who stars successful the Hallmark movie The Holiday Sitter featuring the same-sex romance, is 1 of the celebrities and LGBTQ advocates speaking out.

"I'm conscionable arrogant to beryllium portion of Hallmark transmission that is doing truthful overmuch inclusive programming similar The Holiday Sitter, which is an LGBTQ+ led Christmas movie," the Mean Girls actor, who joined Jaymes Vaughan earlier this year, told E! News connected Tuesday. "I'm conscionable truthful arrogant to beryllium connected Hallmark transmission that's making these movies for everyone, due to the fact that Christmas is for everyone and Hallmark channels are for everyone." He added that the movie has "so overmuch heart" and "humor" and predicts audiences volition emotion it.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has issued a connection astir Bure's "irresponsible" same-sex matrimony comments.

"It's irresponsible and hurtful for Candace Cameron Bure to usage contented arsenic a guise for exclusion," GLAAD's President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said. "I'd emotion to person a speech with Bure astir my wife, our kids, and our family's traditions. Bure is retired of sync with a increasing bulk of radical of faith, including LGBTQ radical of faith, who cognize that LGBTQ couples and families are deserving of emotion and visibility."

Ellis called Bure's comments "harmful and insulting" to the company's LGBTQ employees arsenic good arsenic employees with LGBTQ friends and family.

"If GAF’s program is to intentionally exclude stories astir LGBTQ couples, past actors, advertisers, cablegram and streaming platforms, and accumulation companies should instrumentality enactment and earnestly see whether they privation to beryllium associated with a web that holds exclusion arsenic 1 of its values," Ellis wrote.

Hilarie Burton, JoJo Siwa and much criticized her words, too.

Burton, of One Tree Hill fame, saw a header with Bure's comments and called her a "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."

Siwa past entered the conversation, writing connected Instagram, "Honestly, I can't judge aft everything that went down conscionable a fewer months ago, that she would not lone make a movie with volition of excluding LGBTQIA+, but past besides speech astir it successful the press. This is rude and hurtful to a full assemblage of people."

"Everything that went down" was a notation to Siwa and Bure making headlines earlier this twelvemonth aft Siwa posted a TikTok video calling the Fuller House alum the "rudest" celebrity she's ever met aft a past encounter. They aboriginal spoke privately.

Bure's TV sister Jodie Sweetin joined the speech by throwing enactment Siwa's way. "You cognize I emotion you," she wrote to the singer, who came retired successful 2021, aft she slammed Bure for creating "a movie with [the] volition of excluding LGBTQIA+" people.

Bure's gotten enactment from her 24-year-old daughter, Natasha Bure, who praised her for "continuously choosing Christ earlier all."

In April, it was reported that Bure had near the Hallmark Channel, aft 14 years arsenic the unofficial queen of Christmas owed to her countless vacation movies, for the relation astatine Great American Family. She'll nutrient spiritual titles nether the "Candace Cameron Bure Presents" banner, and is progressive successful contented instauration and curation crossed galore genres.

Bure recruited Lori Loughlin, the Full House histrion progressive successful the assemblage admissions scandal, for movie connected the network. She besides brought implicit Danica McKellar, who is champion known arsenic Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years.

Bure volition prima successful A Christmas… Present for GAF premiering Nov. 27.

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Here's the afloat substance of Bure's connection connected Wednesday:

“I would similar to code my comments connected Great American Family’s programming arsenic reported successful the Wall Street Journal. All of you who cognize me, cognize beyond question that I person large emotion and affection for each people. It perfectly breaks my bosom that anyone would ever deliberation I intentionally would privation to offend and wounded anyone. It saddens maine that the media is often seeking to disagreement us, adjacent astir a taxable arsenic comforting and merry arsenic Christmas movies. But, fixed the toxic clime successful our civilization close now, I shouldn’t beryllium surprised. We request Christmas much than ever.

“I americium a devoted Christian. Which means that I judge that each quality being bears the representation of God. Because of that, I americium called to emotion each people, and I do. If you cognize me, you cognize that I americium a idiosyncratic who loves fiercely and indiscriminately. My bosom yearns to physique bridges and bring radical 1 measurement person to God, to emotion others well, and to simply beryllium a reflection of God’s immense emotion for each of us.

“To the members of the media liable for utilizing this accidental to instrumentality flames of struggle and hate, I person a elemental message: I emotion you anyway. To those who hatred what I worth and who are attacking maine online: I emotion you. To those who person tried to assassinate my character: I emotion you. To everyone speechmaking this, of immoderate race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling, I emotion you.

“I person agelong wanted to find a location for much faith-based programming. I americium grateful to beryllium an integral portion of a young and increasing network.I had besides expressed successful my interview, which was not included, that radical of each ethnicities and identities person and volition proceed to lend to the web successful large ways some successful beforehand of and down the camera, which I promote and afloat support. I’ve ne'er been funny successful proselytizing done my storytelling, but successful celebrating God’s greatness successful our lives done the stories I tell.

“The God we service is simply a wildly originative and loving God. He didn’t conscionable seizure a tiny portion of my heart, He has captured each of my heart. He volition beryllium reflected successful everything I bash and say; successful my family, my enactment and my interactions with radical from each walks of life, God’s emotion and God’s compassion is beforehand and center. All of that comes from the LOVE that God himself showered upon humanity erstwhile helium gave the acquisition of joyousness and forgiveness connected the archetypal Christmas greeting 2000 years ago. It is wherefore I emotion Christmas stories and sharing existent joyousness and existent bid with millions of radical astir the world. And successful the sole information of axenic love, I anticipation you’ll articulation maine successful sharing God’s anticipation for each the satellite this Christmas season. Call that my Christmas wish.”