Candace Cameron Bure is speaking her truth irrespective of what anyone thinks, as she recently addressed “cancel culture” following the criticism of her comments about “traditional marriage.”
Over the past few months, Candace of “Full House” and “Fuller House” fame has found herself being targeted by cancel culture for saying that her new home network Great American Family will focus on content that “keeps traditional marriage at the core.” She’s now responding to the backlash that she’s faced by admitting that “cancel culture’s real.”
The “Fuller House” star also discussed the difficulty in sticking by her Christian beliefs.
“It’s hard, no matter what. Especially when you are a compassionate person and you have a heart for people,” she said. “But it’s important that we speak truth in love, ’cause, listen, nobody’s gonna change, nobody’s gonna listen to you when it comes out angry, when it comes out in a harsh way, but it’s important that we don’t back down.”
Candace came under fire last year after she told the Wall Street Journal that the content on Great American Family, where the actress is also a chief creative officer, won’t feature LGBTQ storylines.
“I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core,” she said in the interview.
Her comment sparked controversy, and Candace responded shortly after in a statement saying she has “great love and affection for all people. It absolutely breaks my heart that anyone would ever think I intentionally would want to offend and hurt anyone.”
The actress was previously a mainstay on Hallmark Channel, which aired its first original movie featuring a same-sex couple, “The Holiday Sitter,” in 2022.
Candace went on to talk about the importance of her strong Christian faith and knowing where to draw “the line in the sand.”
“If you know what your boundaries are, that’s the most important. Because if you don’t make them for yourself, the entertainment industry will make them for you. And that’s what you don’t want,” Candace said.
She added, “There are lots of Christians in the entertainment industry. Some of them you have to find. Some of them are not as outspoken as others, because of the stigmas that might be around being a Christian in entertainment. But there are lots of us.”
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Sources: 100PercentFedUp, EntertainmentTonight