Not holding again. Hilarie Burton known as Candace Cameron Bure a “bigot” after the Full Home alum cited respect for “conventional marriage” as one of many causes she left Hallmark for Nice American Household.
“Bigot. I don’t bear in mind Jesus liking hypocrites like Sweet,” the One Tree Hill veteran, 40, tweeted on Monday, November 14, alongside an article about Bure’s Hallmark exit. “However positive. Make your cash, honey. You trip that prejudice wave all the way in which to the financial institution.”
Hilarie Burton and Candace Cameron Bure. Shutterstock (2)
The Fuller Home star, 46, opened up about her choice to depart Hallmark in an interview with The Wall Road Journal‘s WSJ. Journal printed on Monday. “My coronary heart needs to inform tales which have extra which means and function and depth behind them,” she instructed the outlet. “I knew that the folks behind Nice American Household have been Christians that love the Lord and needed to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
Cameron Bure added that Hallmark is now “mainly is a very completely different community than once I began due to the change of management.” Invoice Abbott, who’s now the president and CEO of Nice American Media, left Hallmark Media in 2020 following an issue over the elimination of an advert that includes a same-sex couple.
Hallmark has since made efforts to diversify its content material, with its first unique vacation film that includes a same-sex couple set to debut subsequent month. Cameron Bure, nonetheless, implied that related efforts wouldn’t be made at her new community.
“I feel that Nice American Household will preserve conventional marriage on the core,” she instructed WSJ. Abbott, for his half, added: “It’s actually the 12 months 2022, so we’re conscious of the developments. There’s no whiteboard that claims, ‘Sure, this’ or ‘No, we’ll by no means go right here.’”
Burton known as out these feedback as properly, tweeting: “Now they’re simply overtly admitting their bigotry. I known as this s–t out years in the past when Abbott was at Hallmark. Glad they dumped him. Being LGBTQ isn’t a ‘development.’ That man and his community are disgusting. You too Sweet. There may be nothing untraditional about same-sex {couples}.”
Cameron Bure beforehand emphasised that Nice American Household would closely emphasize the “religion” parts of its movies. “It completely is representing household. It’s representing religion, which is a extremely large part,” she instructed Selection in September. “They’re going to transfer far more ahead within the religion content material, and having each — nonetheless having numerous motion pictures, rom-coms and Christmas motion pictures that don’t contain religion, but in addition ones that actually do.”
