Here is a situation in which everyone is a loser. Less than two months after her election, Marine Rosset “set back” from the presidency of Scouts and Guides of France. First, the scouting movement itself, which, by choosing a president still committed politically, caused bright internal debates. Then, the Catholic Church in general, on which will inevitably reflect the controversy, and which will fuel against the accusations of homophobia.
It was illusory to think that the personal situation of Marine Rosset, insofar as the latter had, in the past, used publicly as a campaign argument, would have no impact on the movement. This had been the case during the last legislative elections in Paris. This situation today leads to a deplorable mess.
We can understand that some raise the question of consistency between respect for doctrine and the acts of a Catholic official. But one can only deplore the attacks of which Marine Rosset has been the victim in recent weeks, often on the part of far -right backgrounds, because of his homosexuality. Attacks that will remind those who know history, that of the 1920s, when the emerging scouting in France was targeted by the reactionary press, which then accused him of having links with Freemasonry.
A few months after the death of Pope Francis, who had encouraged the inclusion in the church of homosexual people without modifying the Catholic doctrine in the matter, it would be incomprehensible to invoke sexual orientation to dismiss a leader of a Catholic movement. The movement of scouts and guides of France has nothing to prove in its ability to welcome homosexual people. From this point of view, the start, inevitable, of their president is a very bad signal.