Candace Cameron Bure Now Supports Salt, No Update on Gay Marriage Though 

I would eat salt with a spoon if high cholesterol didn’t run in my family, so I can’t relate. And if this were any other celeb, I’d probably roll my eyes and scroll away. But since the holidays are practically here, this feels like an apt opportunity to remind us all of the bigoted snow globe Bure lives inside of.

Bure departed Hallmark in 2022 after 14 years, telling the Wall Street Journal at the time, “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.” The WSJ headlined their interview, “Candace Cameron Bure Wants to Put Christianity Back in Christmas Movies,” aka no gays! Shame on Hallmark for not believing that only straight people are allowed to fall in love during Christmas.

She received tons of backlash for the move and interview, as she should have. “Bigot. I don’t remember Jesus liking hypocrites like Candy. But sure. Make your money, honey,” Hilarie Burton, another Hallmark alum, tweeted at the time. “You ride that prejudice wave all the way to the bank.” I bet Bure hated that since ocean waves are salty.

Also in the interview, when WSJ asked if GAF would ever feature same-sex love stories, Bure responded, “I think that Great American Family will keep traditional marriage at the core.” Burton tweeted: “That guy [Bill Abbott] and his network are disgusting. You too Candy. There is nothing untraditional about same-sex couples.”

Bure also unfollowed Jodie Sweetin, her former Full House co-star, on Instagram, after Sweetin called her out for leaving Hallmark, saying her comments were “rude and hurtful to a whole community of people.” I wish I could go back and tell my seven-year-old self that she doesn’t hate DJ Tanner enough. 

All of that to say, Bure has since come around. …On salt. After taking electrolytes, she now loves salt and is finally like, “Oh, I get this salt thing that people have been talking about for hundreds of years.” See what incredible things happen when you open your mind, mama? Imagine how enhanced your world might be if you stopped wasting your breath preaching “traditional marriage.” Tolerance—or better yet, love and acceptance—is just like salt; it makes everything better.