Kathie Lee Gifford’s bid to paint herself as a compassionate Christian encountered a bit of a snag as she lobbed a petty complaint against the LGBTQ community in a new interview with right-wing personality Tomi Lahren.

During the sit down, Fox Nation pundit Lahren asked the retired morning TV personality how she squares her acceptance of the LGBTQ community with her faith, a topic which came up in regards to actor Shia LaBeouf recently proclaiming he didn’t have “problems” with gay people personally, but that the bible says otherwise.

(LaBeouf was arrested last month in New Orleans after allegedly assaulting two men while shouting homophobic slurs during Mardi Gras celebrations. Defending his actions in an interview after the incident, he said that “big gay people are scary to me.”)

While Gifford acknowledged that scripture certainly has “something to say” about homosexuality, she told Lahren she tries to live by another maxim: “That one is a four-letter word, and it’s called L-O-V-E, love.”

“I’ve had as many or more gay friends than straight friends or whatever,” she went on, before interrupting her own thought with a gripe about the LGBTQ acronym itself.

“I don’t even know how many letters there are now,” Gifford lamented. “They’ve really got to stop with that. We know what you mean, you know?”

Finding her way back to her original point, the former hostess of “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” said, “I’m 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.”

Gifford told Lahren she heard that message straight from God himself, sharing a memory of the Lord once telling her, “Kathy, you will be too busy loving people that you disagree with to judge them.”

“I don’t judge anybody,” she concluded. “That’s God’s business.”

Gifford is in the midst of promoting her latest book, “Nero & Paul,” a fictional account of tyrannical Roman emperor Nero and Saint Paul, one of the world’s earliest and most influential Christian missionaries.

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