Caroline Cayeux and homophobia, episode 32. Rightly criticized for homophobic remarks made in 2012, the mayor of Beauvais and Minister Delegate for Territorial Cohesion, Caroline Cayeux, however received, on Tuesday, the support of her municipal majority. Support in the form of a forum, published on Facebook, to “fight against this media outburst” against a woman “of heart”, “humanist” and “benevolent”.
Adoption for same-sex couples: a “whim reform”. Marriage for all: a “design that goes against nature”. Here are the comments that Caroline Cayeux made in 2012 and which, since her entry into government, have drawn the wrath of associations fighting against homophobia, personalities as well as the anger of members of the presidential majority. Words for which the interested party apologized while maintaining them. And on Tuesday, its municipal majority concluded a support forum affirming that “Caroline Cayeux is not homophobic”.
A town hall that respects the law
The text, published in full on the facebook page of his first deputy mayor of Beauvais, Franck Pia, intends to affirm that with “Caroline Cayeux, all different and all benevolent”. First, the platform recalls that the town hall “celebrates union and marriage for all since May 17, 2013”. It is on this date that the possibility of marriage between persons of the same sex has been enshrined in law.
The municipal majority also specifies that it has signed a charter “Committing not to make any remarks of a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic nature or any other form of discrimination”. On the mayor and minister, the municipal majority of Beauvais affirms that she is a woman “of conviction and heart”, that she shows “humanism”, “commitment to equality”, “benevolence “.
And it’s true, the minister recognized it herself, she has “a lot of friends among these people”. If his municipal team insists that “Caroline Cayeux is not homophobic”, it will be up to justice, seized by associations, to decide if his words were homophobic.