The new Minister Delegate for Local Authorities returned this week to her past opposition to marriage for all, provoking the anger of many political figures and activists. She ended up apologizing.
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Stop homophobia announced, Wednesday, July 13, to file a complaint against Caroline Cayeux, the new Minister Delegate in charge of Local Authorities. The latter had been questioned the day before about her opposition to marriage for all. In 2012, when she was senator LR, she felt that the opening of marriage and adoption to homosexual couples was a “caprice”a “design against nature”.
“I obviously stand by my words, but I have always said that the law, if it were passed, I would apply itshe said on Public Senate, Tuesday. 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.”
Faced with the outcry caused by her statements, she apologized in a tweetTuesday afternoon : “My words hurt many of you. I deeply regret them, they were naturally inappropriate.”
“I think the debate is now closed”said Olivier Véran, the government spokesman, during the report of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.
But these excuses are not enough for Stop Homophobia. “In a legal context where the representatives of the people have voted for nearly ten years to open up marriage to people of the same sex, these remarks are outrageous for homosexual people.says Etienne Deshoulières, lawyer for Stop Homophobia. Can it be said that granting legal personality to black people is a ‘design against nature’?”
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