Former Full House TV siblings Jodie Sweetin and Candace Cameron Bure might have opposing political ideologies in real life, but there’s no hard feelings.
“She was the closest thing I had to a sister. We fought like sisters, even when we were kids, that’s the relationship we had,” Sweetin, 43, said on the Tuesday, December 16, episode of “The Moment” podcast. “Candace’s faith, to be quite honest, has always been at the forefront for her, and I have zero problem with that.”
Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner on Full House and its Fuller House spinoff, has since become an outspoken advocate and ally for causes including reproductive freedom, Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQIA+ community. Cameron Bure, 49, appeared on Full House as Stephanie’s older sister, DJ Tanner, and is often vocal about her faith and conservative ideologies. Cameron Bure even left her Hallmark partnership for Great American Media to make movies with “traditional marriage” at the forefront.
While Cameron Bure and Sweetin do not share the same faith, Sweetin did acknowledge how beneficial religion can be.
“I have no problem with religion if it brings you peace and happiness, not necessarily saying that her brand of religion is not necessarily peace and happiness. I don’t really know,” Sweetin said. “I do know that I don’t think you can truly love people if you don’t respect them.”
She continued, “I think if you don’t respect people enough to allow them the same rights of marriage, of bodily autonomy and all those things, then I don’t think that you can truly love someone. It’s some sort of weird pity, and it’s not love. For me, standing up to say that how we treat other humans ‘cause they’re different from us is completely unacceptable and I’m pretty sure that is what Jesus would’ve said, but what do I know? I’m not a Christian.”
According to Sweetin, she and Cameron Bure have core differences when it comes to expressing their beliefs.
“Candace didn’t really want to take on the political side as much. She [wanted to] keep that out of her brand or whatever, and I just don’t really care about my brand,” Sweetin stated. “If there’s people who don’t like what I’m saying or are like, ‘I like you as Stephanie but I don’t like you as you.’ It’s, like, ‘Great, watch Full House and don’t follow me online.’ It’s OK, you don’t have to like me, but I try not to let other people’s perceptions of who I should be … put up any barriers of what I want to be. Candace and I are very different in that regard.”
Sweetin further noted that Cameron Bure has “kept a little more quiet” about certain politically charged topics, while she’s “always been loud” about her opinions.
For Cameron Bure, she recently told Us Weekly why she is particularly outspoken about her faith.
“The Bible says to go out into the world and share the good news with others, to share the gospel,” Cameron Bure exclusively shared in her December cover story. “To deny that in any part of my life would be denying the very thing that I’m so appreciative of, which is Jesus. I cannot separate those two things, and so I walk boldly in that. Throughout that process, sometimes you take hits and people don’t like you for it, but this is my life. I get to make my choices.”
Cameron Bure also stressed that she keeps trying to bounce back from criticism of her religious beliefs.
“I’m a fighter, man. I just keep getting back up and do the work I want to do,” she told Us. “No matter what side of the fence you’re on, you find your people, and I found mine … I have an audience of one, and that’s God. I’m going to face a holy God. When I die, I’m not going to stand before that person in the comments who doesn’t like me, so I’m more worried about my eternal life.”
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