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Bullying Victim Kirk Cameron: I Love Gay People, I Blame Piers Morgan

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Kirk Cameron today appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and “Fox and Friends” and tried once again to twist his ruinous CNN Piers Morgan Tonight interview that landed him in hot water after he attacked gay people and same-sex marriage. Now, as you can hear in the video below, Cameron claims he too is a victim of bullying — though what kind he did not state — and says he loves everyone, hates no one, and blames host Piers Morgan for throwing him a curve ball and under the bus.

“I love all people, I hate no one,” Cameron told Ann Curry. “And, when you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second soundbite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that’s inappropriate and insensitive. The truth is, these are issues that are very personal.”

“When things get edited down to that, it certainly didn’t reflect my full heart on the matter.”

“Nobody should mistreat anybody. We all have our convictions formed by different things and mine are informed by my faith. They’re formed by the word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.”

For the record, Cameron’s comments — which he doubled down on over the past few weeks — were not “a four-second soundbite.” He spoke for several minutes on the subjects of homosexuality, and same-sex marriage, and he has before, so this was nothing especially new, although the extreme vitriol he spewed was.

Two weeks ago, Cameron told Piers Morgan that homosexuality “is destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization,” and added it is “destructive” and “unnatural.”

“Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve,” Cameron told Morgan. “One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don’t think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.”

Days later, Cameron came out swinging, claiming his chosen religious beliefs trump human dignity and the need for civility and respect, and branding as intolerant those who do not tolerate hate speech:

“I should be able to express moral views on social issues,” Kirk Cameron told ABC News in an exclusive statement on March 6, adding, “especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization for 2,000 years — without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to their moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.”

Today was different, as Cameron both re-ignited the issue by appearing on the Today Show, and by spinning his previous statements.

Fortunately, in “Today Show Fails on Kirk Cameron Interview,” GLAAD is having none of it, and blames the Today Show for its failure to hold Cameron’s feet to the fire:

“If gay people should not be mistreated – how did you treat them when you called them ‘unnatural?’

That should have been the next question from the Today Show’s Ann Curry when Cameron told her “Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated.”

“What about the millions and millions of devout Christians who support LGBT people?”

That should have been the next question from Curry when Cameron told her “We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith.”

 “In what context is calling someone destructive to civilization considered loving?”

That should have been the next question from Curry, when Kirk Cameron told her “I love all people, I hate no one.”

Calling a group of people “destructive to society” is a very strong statement, and not one that can easily be taken out of context. And Piers Morgan, who did the interview in which Cameron made these statements, pointed out that they were not taken out of context at all.

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GLAAD spokesperson Herndon Graddick said:

“Saying that gay people are ‘detrimental to civilization’ might be ‘loving’ in Kirk Cameron’s mind, but it’s gay youth and victims of bullying who truly suffer from adults like Cameron who espouse these ideas.

“Cameron used his platform on CNN to attack gay Americans and is now attempting to play victim in an effort to sell his upcoming movie. That Cameron would risk the health and safety of young people in order to do so speaks for itself.

Cameron also appeared on Fox news today, and placed the blame on Piers Morgan. The Huffington Post reports that Morgan was not having it:

Piers Morgan shot back at Kirk Cameron on Tuesday, after the actor alleged that he was blindsided by the CNN host when he made controversial comments against homosexuality.

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In his appearance on Tuesday’s “Fox and Friends,” Cameron stood by his remarks and accused Morgan of portraying him unfairly.

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Morgan tweeted a series of responses to the allegations on Tuesday morning.

He hit back at the actor for “moaning” and “whining.” He told his followers to judge what happened for themselves, repeating Cameron’s original comments on homosexuality and pointing out that Cameron just defended them again.

 

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