Kathie Lee Gifford shaded the LGBTQIA+ community for using too many letters in its title.
“I don’t even know how many letters there are now,” the former “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+ community came after Lahren asked her how she reconciles with her status as an avid Christian while also being “big into LGBTQ” issues.
“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 personality also insisted that she’s heard God’s voice, though “not audibly,” since she was 12 years and has continued to follow an important 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 judge anybody. That’s God’s business.”
Page Six has reached out to Gifford’s rep for comment.
Earlier in the interview, Gifford declared that cancel culture 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 also noted that she’s survived public attempts to be canceled in the past.
“Try again,” she said. “It ain’t gonna happen.”