Kirk Cameron Apologizes For Anti-Gay Remarks: ‘It’s My Life’s Mission To Love All People’
March 6 2012, Published 9:00 a.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
True to the unspoken rule regarding any Hollywood celebrity embroiled in a scandal, Kirk Cameron apologized on Tuesday for the anti-gay comments he made to Piers Morgan on his CNN show last week.
“I spoke as honestly as I could, but some people believe my responses were not loving toward those in the gay community. That is not true. I can assuredly say that it’s my life’s mission to love all people,” the Growing Pains star said in a crisis statement to ABCNews.com.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, the 41-year-old former child star told Morgan on Friday, “I think that it's… it's… it's unnatural. I think that it's…it's detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization,” he said about homosexuality.
On the subject of gay marriage, Cameron added, "Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. 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.”
Despite his mea culpa, it was clear from his next comments that Cameron still stands by his original stance.
“I should be able to express moral views on social issues,” he went on to say, “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.”
“I believe we need to learn how to debate these thin