I’ve wondered whether the dislike for Kirk Cameron from Hollyweird was based on his being a Christian Conservative or because he actually is difficult to work with (then again, so are many leftists - Streisand is notoriously horrid to work with). I’m guessing it’s a mix of both bigotry and some reality.
Because he’s a Christian Conservative.
Having seen the movie, its actual enjoyable and interesting (raises some points about the history of Christmas I hadn't heard about before, and talks about stuff that the secular media rarely discusses about the holiday). It's worth checking out.
THAT being said, it is, objectively speaking, a pretty lousy film. In fact, the biggest problem is it shouldn't even BE a film. Cameron took what basically could have worked for a 12 minute YouTube blog, and tried to pad it into a 90 min. feature length movie, which failed spectacularly (of course he needed to add some pointless framing story about how his fictional brother-in-law refuses to celebrate Christmas because its "unbiblical", so Cameron spends the rest of the movie having a conversation in a car with him, leading into all the segments on the history of Christmas). Apparently the running time was still too short after this, so Cameron added a 10 min. end credits sequence of the cast break dancing to modern Christmas music in slow motion... shows how hip and kewl they are!
His intentions were good and praiseworthy, the end product was not.
Interesting trivia fact, even though Cameron says he only does faith-based movies now and wants nothing to do with his old pre-Christian career doing CW-style teen sitcoms in the 80s, he still agreed to guest star in the Full House reunion just recently, and do TWO Full House reunion movies in the 2000s. I guess money talks!