In an interview given to Parisian and posted this Thursday, Caroline Cayeux said she regretted her “stupid and clumsy” comments about gay people and “reiterates” her apologies. The new Minister of Territorial Communities has been at the center of a controversy since she said “keep her word” by describing marriage for all as “designs against nature.”
He regrets the comments that “go back ten years” and that “do not reflect (his) thinking at all.”
“And if I can’t deny I made them, of course I wouldn’t use them again and I’d regret it. I understand that these stupid and clumsy words could have hurt so much. I’d like to renew my sincerest apologies here because they do.” does not reflect my thinking at all,” says Caroline Cayeux.
“This expression was shocking and painful”
“It is a bad judgment that they are giving me,” he had estimated in the Public Senate, giving as an argument the fact of having “many friends among all these people.” A ruling that caused a lot of reaction, especially within the government itself. Caroline Cayeux also claims to have exchanged with Clément Beaune, Delegate Minister for Transport on this subject.
“I felt that I had hurt him and I want to tell him all my friendship,” he said. “I measured how shocking and painful this expression was for many people,” he continued this Thursday in the columns of Le Parisien.
Actions “against all forms of discrimination” as “local elected official”
The minister recalls her commitment “against all forms of discrimination” since she was elected local. She also wrote a letter of apology to the associations against homophobia that had filed a complaint against her.
Caroline Cayeux also specifies that as mayor of Beauvais (Oise), “she accompanied an association (…) to open a weekly office, providing them with an associative premises, a place of welcome and advice for victims of homophobic acts and comments”.
Source: BFM TV
