Kirk Cameron On Gay Firestorm: ‘I Love All People. I Hate No One’

Cameron  -- who says he has gay friends – also denied hating gay people.

"Absolutely not," he said. "I love all people, I hate no one. ... When you take a subject and reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive. ... To edit it down to that, it certainly didn't reflect my full heart on the matter."

Curry asked Cameron if he felt his remarks could encourage some people to bully gays.

"Nobody should mistreat anybody," he said. "We all have our convictions formed by different things and mine are informed by my faith. They're formed by the word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems."

Cameron appeared on TODAY to promote his new movie, Monumental, in which he stars and co-produced.

Cameron later appeared on Fox and Friends, where he again defended his remarks to Piers Morgan, saying,  "I don't change my feeling about the comments."

The actor also criticized Morgan as bring "disingenuous."

"What disheartens me ... is that when you're sitting across the table from someone who knows what your perspective is on issues--and I've been very consistent, I don't think anything I said surprised anybody as a Bible-believing Chrisitan--but to then take some answers, reduce an important and personal and sensitive issue to a 4 second soundbite and toss it into a community to start a political firestorm and really upset people that you're saying you're looking to protect, I think it's disingenuous,"  Cameron said.