Minister Caroline Cayeux says she “maintains” her remarks on marriage for all, “a design that goes against ‘nature'”, then apologizes – Le Monde

“It’s a bad trial that I’m being made. The new Minister Delegate for Local Authorities is overtaken by her positions on the law opening marriage to people of the same sex. In the gay magazine Têtu, a petition published on Monday and signed in particular by around fifty left-wing deputies accuses the former senator Les Républicains (LR) of Oise of having qualified the reform brought by Christiane Taubira and adopted in 2013 of “’whim’, of ‘a disrespectful openness to nature and insane’”. “The requirement of same-sex marriage, and the adoption of children that goes with it, is not simply a design that goes against ‘nature’. It’s more serious,” she also declared during a session in the Senate in April 2013. Invited to the morning show of Public Sénat, Tuesday July 12, the minister said she “assumed” her remarks while denying having used the term “whim “. “I obviously stand by my words, but I have always said that the law, if it were passed, I would apply it. And then, I’m going to tell you, all the same, that I have many friends among all these people. Frankly, it’s a bad trial that I’m being made and it upset me a lot (…). I have never been part of La Manif pour tous, I have never paraded, let things be clear, ”she said. A petition calls for the departure of “notorious LGBTQIAphobic” ministers: “It’s a bad trial that I’m being sued and… https://t.co/cBySmqwvsH— publicsenat (@Public Sénat) line of defense was widely criticized on the left. Pierre Jouvet, one of the spokespersons of the Socialist Party (PS) was indignant at the tone used. “‘I have many friends among all those people .” The ordinary homophobia of a minister in France in 2022. These people are to vomit, “he reacted. “Homosexuals deserve neither insults nor false sympathy, meanwhile, estimated on Twitter Boris Vallaud, president of the socialist group in the National Assembly. Marriage for all is a great step forward in equality, and the socialists are proud to have contributed to it. The progressivism promised by Emmanuel Macron is drowning in the conservatism of La Manif pour tous. Ms. Cayeux apologized in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon: “My words hurt many of you. I deeply regret them, they were naturally inappropriate. Equal rights must always be a priority in our action. The petition calls for the “departure” of two other ministers, accused of having a “Demonstration past for all” and of being “Notorious LGBTQIAphobes”. Among them, Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, who participated at La Manif pour tous in 2012. The former member of the UMP had then declared that as mayor of Tourcoing, he “will not celebrate[t] personally no marriages between two men and two women”. Remarks which had already sparked the ire of activists when he was first appointed as Minister of the Interior, in 2017. At the time, a petition had already been launched “For a government which does not promote neither racism nor a culture of rape, nor LGBTQIA+ phobias”. Christophe Béchu, Minister for Ecological Transition, also quoted The text also pinpoints Christophe Béchu, current Minister for Ecological Transition, who, for his part, “signed at Valeurs Actuelles (…) a platform” against same-sex marriage, which “ speaks of a “blurring of the original landmarks”. The petition also explains that he “made the decision to withdraw” in 2016 in his city of Angers, “posters of an HIV prevention campaign, on the grounds that they presented couples of men”. The city councilor then explained that he wanted to “protect the youngest children from visuals and messages” whose “content and form” could be considered “provocative”. “The president, elected to block the homophobic far right, adds to his government two faces of La Manif pour tous: Ms. Caroline Cayeux, Minister Delegate for Territorial Cohesion, and Mr. Christophe Béchu, Minister of Ecology and the energy transition”, can we read in this text published on Monday. “We are asking for the departure of these three ministers who are spokespersons for the movement of hatred and rejection,” he asks. On the initiative of the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) Andy Kerbrat, the platform was notably signed by the “insubordinate” parliamentarians Ugo Bernalicis, Mathilde Panot, Danièle Obono and Adrien Quatennens. The World with AFP