Not holding again. Hilarie Burton referred to 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 keep 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 certain. Make your cash, honey. You experience 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 determination to go away Hallmark in an interview with The Wall Road Journal‘s WSJ. Journal printed on Monday. “My coronary heart desires to inform tales which have extra that means and objective and depth behind them,” she informed the outlet. “I knew that the folks behind Nice American Household had been Christians that love the Lord and needed to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
Cameron Bure added that Hallmark is now “principally is a very completely different community than after 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 argument 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 authentic vacation film that includes a same-sex couple set to debut subsequent month. Cameron Bure, nevertheless, implied that comparable efforts wouldn’t be made at her new community.
“I feel that Nice American Household will preserve conventional marriage on the core,” she informed 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 referred to as out these feedback as properly, tweeting: “Now they’re simply overtly admitting their bigotry. I referred to 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’s nothing untraditional about same-sex {couples}.”
Cameron Bure beforehand emphasised that Nice American Household would closely emphasize the “religion” components of its movies. “It completely is representing household. It’s representing religion, which is a extremely large part,” she informed Selection in September. “They will transfer far more ahead within the religion content material, and having each — nonetheless having a lot of motion pictures, rom-coms and Christmas motion pictures that don’t contain religion, but additionally ones that basically do.”
