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Candace Cameron Bure: Allowing business to discriminate is part of what makes America ‘wonderful’
Writer, The View co-host and Full House actor Candace Cameron Bure has reiterated her convinction that business owners with deeply held religious views should be allowed to turn away customers if they believe that providing service to them conflicts with their faith.
Cameron Bure – the sister of homophobic, evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron – made the comments in an interview with HuffPost Live.
Last month, Cameron Bure clashed with The View co-host Raven Symoné over the issue of bakeries that refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. Raven Symoné was critical of a bakery in Oregon that had refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, but Cameron Bure leapt to its defense.
‘I don’t think this is discrimination at all. This is about freedom of association. It’s about constitutional rights. It’s about First Amendment rights. It’s about having the right to still choose who we associate with,’ she said at the time.
‘[They] didn’t refuse to bake the cake because of [the couple’s] sexual orientation. In fact, they baked cakes for them previously. They had a problem with the actual ceremony because that – the ceremony – is what conflicted with their religious beliefs.’
Asked in this week’s interview about the on-air spat with Symoné, Cameron Bure – who described herself as ‘outspoken’ about her faith – said that she was ‘pleased’ with the way she had handled herself and hoped that she would be invited back to co-host The View more often.
Although she said that ‘as a Christian’ she wouldn’t necessarily do the same, she reiterated that she supported the bakery’s decision to not make the requested wedding cake.
‘I’ll always fight for religious freedoms, but I think people misunderstand that when you do fight for religious freedom, in that particular case, it doesn’t mean that I personally would always respond the way the people in the case are responding.’
She said that part of what makes America ‘incredible’ is that ‘we have the freedom to live our life the way we’d like to. Everyone deserves that equality and freedom.
‘And in the same way if something, you know, conflicts with someone’s deeply held religious beliefs, we should have the freedom to not have to deal with that or be associated with it.
‘Just as on the opposite side, they don’t have to either. It’s, again, what makes our country so wonderful.’
The Oregon Bakery discussed on The View is Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Last month it was told that it must pay $135,000 in damages to the lesbian couple it refused to prepare a wedding cake for in 2013.
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that the business’ refusal to bake a wedding cake for Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer constituted unlawful discrimination.
Supporters of Alan and Melissa Klein, the bakery’s owners, have donated over $350,000 through a fundraising website to help them meet the costs of the fine.
You can watch Candace Cameron Bure’s interview below. The discussion concerning The View starts at around the 6 minute mark.
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