Candace Cameron Bure, dubbed the queen of Christmas for her previous starring roles in numerous Hallmark holiday movies, is touting a new, gay-unfriendly venture.
Bure left Hallmark to join former CEO Bill Abbott at the Great American Family Channel in 2021. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Bure said her new channel will be concentrating on “traditional” families.
Her remarks come after Hallmark has made strides to be more inclusive. This holiday season, it’s releasing its first holiday movie centered on a same-sex couple.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Great American Family to follow suit.
“My heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them,” Bure said of her decision to sign up to the new channel. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.”
She went on to throw shade at her previous employer. She said Hallmark, “basically is a completely different network than when I started because of the change of leadership.”
Related: Hallmark to homophobes: More gay is on the way
Bure made her Hallmark debut in 2008 and appeared in around 30 movies for the channel. She has also appeared on Dancing With The Stars and was a regular host on The View between 2015-2016. Some of you may also remember her as a child star on Full House.
Asked about Hallmark’s move toward more diverse storytelling, and if GAF might have any movies with same-sex couples, Bure responded, “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.”
Bill Abbott, in the same interview, was a little more circumspect, saying, “It’s certainly the year 2022, so we’re aware of the trends. There’s no whiteboard that says, ‘Yes, this’ or ‘No, we’ll never go here.’”
Yes, he used the word “trends”.
The birth of Great American Family channel
In September, Bure and Abbot spoke with Variety about their new channel. Abbot said it would be concentrating on Christmas movies at first. However, it would look to doing content with other faiths in the future. He acknowledged that those wishing to tell more diverse stories might go to Hallmark or Netflix to pitch and develop their projects first.
“Sometimes we’re not thought of by people who are really good at those storylines and so we have to go seek them… In growing this business, it’s much a much heavier lift than I ever thought. I knew it was going to be hard, but not this hard. And so, we’ll get there, but it’s not an overnight thing.”
Bure’s latest comments prompted criticism from many online.
FINALLY A NETWORK FOR STORIES WITH STRAIGHT LEADS!!!
Candace Cameron Bure you’re that girl, we knew you were. Enjoy your straight, white echo chamber, because something tells me people outside of your cult (or under the age of 80) won’t be “prioritizing” watching your movies. https://t.co/VsBEltm6Fu
— Kit Williamson (@kitwilliamson) November 14, 2022
They should rename it the “Great White Christian Nationalist Family”
We gotta stop letting people appropriate “American” when they’re really talking about extremist religious views
It’s like calling ISIS “THE GREAT IRAQI FAMILY” or something
— Jorge Rivera Marín (@rbc12steps) November 14, 2022
Currently saddened to learn that Candace Cameron Bure has moved to work with a TV network that calls straight couples the traditional marriage.
I no longer support her. Her views on the LGBTQ+ community is sadly anti – Christian. Jesus loved EVERYBODY.— Theresa 🤠🏴☠️🦫🦦🦃 (@swiftiebuckycas) November 15, 2022
Candace Cameron answers the question no one asked: What’s worse than a Hallmark movie?
— Tasha (@TashaSl8r) November 14, 2022
Didn’t expect her to say the quiet part out loud, but she walked on out there with a megaphone.
— Dane Salyer (@Dane_S) November 14, 2022
*loudly* girl fuck you https://t.co/z5r0OuF4WJ
— RMJ (@reneerapp) November 15, 2022
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Mr. Stadnick
Mrs. Jesus will make films about white christian hate.
Kangol2
Will she start with Don the Con’s (very un-)”traditional” marriages? Or Marjorie Taylor Greene’s, in which she slept with two different men while pushing “sanctity of marriage” rhetoric? Or Lauren Boebert’s, with the husband exposing himself to underage girls? Or Rudy Ghouliani’s, in which he married his cousin, got that annulled, married another woman then began living with a third, leading the Archbishop of New York to call him out, only for him to leave the third to take up with a new woman? Or Russian muppet Paul Manafort’s, in which he allegedly induced his wife to get turned out by well hung men? Or Roger Stone’s, where he and his wifey allegedly visited BDSM clubs? Or what about Ronald Raygun’s? The GQP models are just endless!
abfab
Tell it, Kang!
linedrive
This is fantastic. Maybe we’ll get the Falwell story too with its traditional Christian focus on their sexy pool boy.
Yooper
Traditional marriage. Like when daddy could knock around mom and not get sent to the pokey. Or mom’s a raging alcoholic but “nobody knows”. Or 15yr old sister susie went off to “visit family” out west for summer break (because luckily her due date coincided with summer break). Or dad getting picked up for public indecency at the Greyhound station. Should be fascinating television.
Neoprene
She’s kinda what I picture Cammie looks like, only thinner.
Den
By contrast everybody knows without a doubt that you are butt ugly, radiating from your soul on outwards. I bet you look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, only less human.
Neoprene
Dennie – You still upset about being triggered by an earlier comment? Poor, poor girrrrl. Is there a therapy pet nearby you can hug?
tjack47
Dudebro! She and her brother make me weary. I guess I feel left behind. Thank goodness, because her brother reminds me of the Devil.
Stan H
She is a hateful bigot. She thinks she is a good Christian. Oh wait Christians are the biggest bigots.
ShiningSex
Anything remotely like Hallmark is gross and boring.
It’s TV for women who don’t give head but more concerned with “family” appearances.
I bet Candace’s husband is getting head from elsewhere. Bless her black heart.
Terrycloth
Her brother ia another religous nut who never has any good movies or anything intelligent to say..that book has ruined their brains
Mack
When someone says “traditional marriage” I have to laugh. Before I retired I married people like a Justice of the Peace, except I was called a Marriage Commissioner. I remember those straight people who were going for their TENTH marriage, or the guy who took off on his bride an hour after the ceremony, or the guy who just wanted me to “pronounce” them and not do any of that “love, honor and obey crap”. Bride got so pissed she went out to the car for 20 minutes until he could talk her in doing the ceremony. And there are many more stories like those.
But I guess Candace’s vision of traditional marriage is the guy forcing his wife to “perform her duties” or being slapped around, or even barefooted, pregnant and in the kitchen. What a joke.
GrizzleyMichael
I liked her on Full House, and now she is just like her brother Kirk annoying piece of shit.
andrewmpls
I gave her a pass bc she doesn’t talk mad crap about us like her brother does. But, actions speak louder than words. Girl, bye.
cuteguy
If she is so much into “traditional” marriage, why is she making more money than her loser husband. Women were subservient to men in the Bible. The man is the head of the household. Candy’s job is to be barefoot and pregnant. That’s all she’s good for according to Bible. But of course she will cherry pick whatever is convenient like most brainwashed religious hypocrites. She is as sick as her loser MAGA brother who is homophobic and they both need to be permanently cancelled
scotty
by all means please do not hesitate to profile clarence thomas and his unhinged white wife. theyve partnered up to destroy something somewhere.
ant
I would honestly feel sorry for people like her if they weren’t so dangerous.
dbmcvey
Traditional families; spouse abuse, child abuse, white, Christian.
Jimmynj
She should stay at that network and make subpar movies with her equally ignorant brother. And when that network implodes, they can go away forever.