Kathie Lee Gifford shaded the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood for utilizing too many letters in its title.
“I don’t even know how many letters there are now,” the previous “Today” anchor said on Tomi Lahren’s podcast Monday.
“They’ve really got to stop with that,” she added.
Gifford’s criticism of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood got here after Lahren requested her how she reconciles with her standing as an avid Christian whereas additionally being “big into LGBTQ” points.
“That one is a four-letter word, and it’s called L-O-V-E, love,” Gifford, 72, responded.
“I’ve been in this business since I started getting paid when I was 10 years old to sing,” she continued. “I’ve had as many or more gay friends than straight friends.”
Gifford then clarified that she’s “not telling anybody how to live their life.”
“I never have. I just know what Jesus said: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Love God first.”
She added, “I can’t hate anybody that I say I love. Love cannot live alongside hatred. They just don’t.”
The TV character additionally insisted that she’s heard God’s voice, although “not audibly,” since she was 12 years and has continued to observe an essential message from God.
“‘He said, Kathie, you will be too busy loving people that you disagree with to judge them,’” she said. “I don’t decide anyone. That’s God’s enterprise.”
Page Six has reached out to Gifford’s rep for remark.
Earlier within the interview, Gifford declared that cancel tradition is “anti-God.”
“I think it’s horrible,” she shared “You can’t call yourself a believer in Jesus and then treat people like that. Jesus never canceled anybody.”
“So I follow that guy, and not somebody who says, ‘You don’t believe the way I believe, so I’m canceling you.’ I’m going, ‘Really, why? Because you don’t like the way I believe about Jesus? Why do you hate that so much?”
Gifford added, “Every single person that cancels other people would be canceled too by another person. You wanna see what that’s like? Keep it up.”
The Daytime Emmy winner additionally famous that she’s survived public makes an attempt to be canceled prior to now.
“Try again,” she mentioned. “It ain’t gonna happen.”
