Once again, Caroline Cayeux’s earlier comments about LGBT people resurface. The minister herself affirmed in 2013, during a speech in the Senate, that the LGBT community “does not exist”, in the midst of the debates on the opening of marriage to same-sex couples. The former senator is already the target of much criticism, especially from the left, for old statements against marriage for all, which she described in 2013 as “unnatural design.”
“Let’s not make these communities, which do not exist, the new intermediate bodies of the Republic,” he launched at that time, challenging the other senators.
In reference to the issue of LGBT associations, she also denounces “organizations that claim to be representative of the communities”, but which, according to her, “are not legitimate because these communities do not need to be recognized by the State”.
The video extract of this intervention had been shared almost 400 times on Twitter this Saturday at the end of the morning.
Statements “inadmissible” by a minister
“It is not possible for a minister to have these kinds of comments,” Lucile Jomat, president of SOS Homophobia, denounces this Saturday on BFMTV, who “hopes that the government will take action with Caroline Cayeux.”
“We received a letter of apology to apologize for comments related to marriage for everyone,” said the president of the association.
However, he says that he “regrets” that the letter does not return to the recent use by the minister of the expression “those people” to designate homosexuals, a term “extremely denigrating and, by a minister, inadmissible” according to Lucille. Jomat.
apologies not working
Already targeted by a column published in Stubborn On Monday, calling her “the face of everyone’s demonstration” and calling for her departure from the government, the minister then chose to assume her past statements.
“I stand by my words, of course,” Caroline Cayeux said Tuesday in the Public Senate, denying that she used the word “whim” at the time. “But I always said that the law, if it passed, I would apply it,” she clarified though.
“It’s a bad test that they’re doing to me,” continued Caroline Cayeux. “I’ll tell you anyway that I have many friends among all these people,” she argued then.
Latest statements that, far from extinguishing criticism, on the contrary, revive it. Faced with criticism, many from the left, but also present in the majority, the minister hastened to say that she regretted the “naturally inappropriate” statements.
The members of the majority, in turn, are preparing a platform directed at the minister and questioning her presence in the government due to her comments considered homophobic. She should appear in the next few hours.
Source: BFM TV
