Candace Cameron Bure On Her ‘The View’ Appearance: ‘I Wasn’t There To Debate Gay Marriage’

Candace Cameron Bure appeared on The View this week to discuss the Christian bakers who were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding on grounds of religious opposition.

While Bure, the 39-year-old sister of conservative Christian Kirk Cameron, who holds similar beliefs, did do battle of sorts with Raven-Symone, 29, for the Full House star, the discussion wasn’t about gay marriage.

In comments to the Blaze, she further clarified her position.

“I wasn’t there to debate gay marriage or straight marriage,” she said. “It was about these bakers and their religious freedoms and the freedom of association.”

Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery, were ordered to pay the hefty six-figure sum to Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer for “emotional and mental anguish” at having refused to bake their cake on religious grounds.

For Candace Cameron Bure, this was a ridiculous judgment.

“This is about freedom of association, it’s about constitutional rights, it’s about First Amendment rights,” she said. “We do have the right to still choose who we associate with.”

There is at least some precedent from the U.S. Supreme Court to back up what Bure is saying, with the recent Hobby Lobby decision allowing closely-held businesses that serve the public to object to certain measures on religious grounds.

In the case of the craft company, the religious owners did not want to cover certain drugs that could cause termination of a fetus after conception. They won 5-4 in a verdict from what has proven to be a moderately liberal court over the last six years.

Opponents of this argument liken the Sweet Cakes by Melissa case to the “Whites Only” signs found in many businesses throughout the U.S. after the Civil War and all the way up to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

The point Bure was making on The View — see video above — was that it would be wrong of Sweet Cakes by Melissa not to serve customers because they were gay, but there is nothing wrong with them not wanting to be associated with a specific request that goes against their religious beliefs.

In other words, no cake for gay people because they’re gay — wrong; no cake for a gay wedding because you believe marriage should be between one man and one woman — not wrong.

But what do you think, readers? Did Candace Cameron Bure get this right or wrong? Sound off in the comments section.

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