Kathie Lee Gifford thinks the LGBTQ+ community has added too many letters to its various acronyms.

In an interview with Fox News pundit Tomi Lahren, the former Today Show and Regis and Kathie Lee host, who is promoting her new book Nero and Paul: How the Gospel of Grace Defeated the Ruler of Rome, rambled about her Christian faith, so-called cancel culture (she hates it), and her career in television.

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Late in the interview, Lahren brought up actor Shia LaBeouf’s recent comments about his own faith and homosexuality, following his arrest last month for allegedly assaulting three men in New Orleans while spewing anti-gay slurs.

“I know what the Bible says [about] homosexuality,” LaBeouf told YouTuber Andrew Callaghan. “‘Nah.’”

“The scriptures do have something to say about it,” Gifford said in response to Lahren quoting LaBeouf’s comments. “You can also just look up that, too.”

Lahren then asked Gifford how she reconciles that interpretation of the Bible with her own support for the LGBTQ+ community.

“That one is a four-letter word, and it’s called L-O-V-E: Love,” Gifford said.

She went on to claim that she’s had “as many or more gay friends than straight friends” since beginning her career in entertainment as a child. She then seemed to stumble over the term “LGBTQ.”

“I don’t know how many letters there are now,” she said. “They’ve really gotta stop with that. You know, we know what you mean.”

The LGBTQ+ acronym has indeed expanded over recent decades, with some organizations and outlets including initials for other sexual and gender minority groups, including those who are intersex, asexual, questioning, and/or identify as Two-Spirit.

Judging from her comments, Gifford would seem to find such efforts at recognition and inclusion of underrepresented minorities that face similar, and in some cases more extreme, marginalization and discrimination as gay and lesbian folks, tiresome.

Her comments were greeted with ridicule on social media, with many accusing Gifford of being out of touch and irrelevant.

Earlier in her interview with Gifford, Lahren claimed that there were “a lot people on the left who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” Gifford responded, “That’s just evil.”

Days after Kirk’s assassination last September at a forum at Utah Valley University, video of the former talk show host delivering a tribute to the anti-LGBTQ+ Christian nationalist activist went viral. In the clip, Gifford described Kirk as an “extraordinary, godly, godly man who stood up for truth and paid a great price for it.”