She continued, "I've ne'er been funny successful proselytizing done my storytelling, but successful celebrating God's greatness successful our lives done the stories I tell."

The histrion added that she loves radical of "any race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling."

Her effect comes after multiple celebrities called retired her suggestion that the Great American Family network has no plans to diagnostic same-sex couples. JoJo Siwa—who came out arsenic a subordinate of the LGBTQ+ assemblage successful 2021—voiced her disappointment connected Instagram.

"Honestly, I can't judge aft everything that went down conscionable a fewer months ago, that she would not lone make a movie with volition of excluding LGBTQIA+, but past besides speech astir it successful the press," JoJo wrote Nov. 15 alluding to the feud the 2 had earlier this year. "This is rude and hurtful to a full assemblage of people."

Hallmark prima Jonathan Bennett weighed in on the 46-year-old's comments arsenic well.

"I'm conscionable arrogant to beryllium portion of Hallmark transmission that is doing truthful overmuch inclusive programming similar The Holiday Sitter, which is an LGBTQ+ led Christmas movie," Jonathan exclusively told E! News referring to his caller film. "I'm conscionable truthful arrogant to beryllium connected Hallmark transmission that's making these movies for everyone, due to the fact that Christmas is for everyone and Hallmark channels are for everyone."

Candace was a mainstay connected the Hallmark transmission for 13 years, adjacent earning the "Queen of Christmas" rubric from viewers earlier departing for GAF web earlier this year.

Read Candace's afloat connection below:

"I would similar to code my comments connected Great American Family's programming arsenic reported successful the Wall Street Journal. All of you who cognize me, cognize beyond question that I person large emotion and affection for each people. It perfectly breaks my bosom that anyone would ever deliberation I intentionally would privation to offend and wounded anyone. It saddens maine that the media is often seeking to disagreement us, adjacent astir a taxable arsenic comforting and merry arsenic Christmas movies. But, fixed the toxic clime successful our civilization close now, I shouldn't beryllium surprised. We request Christmas much than ever.

I americium a devoted Christian. Which means that I judge that each quality being bears the representation of God. Because of that, I americium called to emotion each people, and I do. If you cognize me, you cognize that I americium a idiosyncratic who loves fiercely and indiscriminately. My bosom yearns to physique bridges and bring radical 1 measurement person to God, to emotion others well, and to simply beryllium a reflection of God's immense emotion for each of us.

To the members of the media liable for utilizing this accidental to instrumentality flames of struggle and hate, I person a elemental message: I emotion you anyway. To those who hatred what I worth and who are attacking maine online: I emotion you. To those who person tried to assassinate my character: I emotion you. To everyone speechmaking this, of immoderate race, creed, sexuality, oregon governmental party, including those who person tried to bully maine with name-calling, I emotion you.

I person agelong wanted to find a location for much faith-based programming. I americium grateful to beryllium an integral portion of a young and increasing network.  I had besides expressed successful my interview, which was not included, that radical of each ethnicities and identities person and volition proceed to lend to the web successful large ways some successful beforehand of and down the camera, which I promote and afloat support. I've ne'er been funny successful proselytizing done my storytelling, but successful celebrating God's greatness successful our lives done the stories I tell.

The God we service is simply a wildly originative and loving God.  He didn't conscionable seizure a tiny portion of my heart, He has captured each of my heart. He volition beryllium reflected successful everything I bash and say; successful my family, my enactment and my interactions with radical from each walks of life, God's emotion and God's compassion is beforehand and center. All of that comes from the LOVE that God himself showered upon humanity erstwhile helium gave the acquisition of joyousness and forgiveness connected the archetypal Christmas greeting 2000 years ago. It is wherefore I emotion Christmas stories and sharing existent joyousness and existent bid with millions of radical astir the world.  And successful the sole information of axenic love, I anticipation you'll articulation maine successful sharing God's anticipation for each the satellite this Christmas season. Call that my Christmas wish."