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Posted on 08/07/2025 5:41:21 PM PDT by ebb tide
Marine Rosset, the newly appointed president of France’s largest Catholic-inspired scouting organization, resigned less than two months after her election amid intense criticism over her support for abortion rights and her homosexual relationship.
After announcing her resignation on Aug. 6, the 39-year-old Socialist Party member explained her decision in an interview with the Catholic daily La Croix, saying the “situation had become untenable” and expressing her desire to “protect the movement.”
Rosset was elected president of the Scouts et Guides de France (SGDF) on June 14 by a decisive vote of 22 to 2, with one abstention.
The SGDF is France’s largest scouting association with over 100,000 members. The association was formed in 2004 through the merger of two historically Catholic organizations.
Today, the group maintains Catholic chaplains and describes itself as both “a Catholic youth and popular education movement” and as “open to all, without distinction of nationality, culture, social origin, or belief.”
The controversy centered on Rosset’s public positions that directly conflict with Catholic teaching. A Paris city councilor and former schoolteacher of history and geography, Rosset is in a same-sex civil union and has a child through artificial reproduction.
The Socialist Party member has also publicly advocated for abortion rights, positions that drew sharp criticism from Catholic media and clergy.
“After my election, there were people outside of scouting — political forces, communications networks, even financial ones — who instrumentalized positions I had taken,” Rosset told La Croix. “This created a false image of the Scouts and Guides de France, because a number of my positions became associated with those of the movement.”
According to Le Monde, some chaplains within the scouting movement had expressed opposition to her appointment, citing concerns about both her political activism and personal life that contradict Church teaching on sexuality and life issues.
Catholic website Tribune Chrétienne called her resignation “the end of an organized misunderstanding,” arguing that one cannot lead a Catholic youth movement while “openly contradicting what the Church teaches as nonnegotiable.”
Political factors also contributed to Rosset’s decision. With a by-election scheduled in her Paris constituency this fall, she had planned to campaign for her party’s candidate. This move would have further politicized the scouting group and potentially alienated Catholic families, according to Le Monde.
“Any statement I made would have been scrutinized,” Rosset explained to La Croix. “It was really important to me that the movement not be reduced to my person alone — it is bigger than me.”
The official SGDF statement claimed “violent, discriminatory, and dehumanizing remarks” had been directed at Rosset and that she had filed legal complaints over online threats.
Pierre Monéger, the organization’s former vice president, has assumed leadership through a collective governance structure that includes two new vice presidents, Julie Lefort and Charles Le Gac.
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Robert Baden-Powell is turning over in his grave.
“Marine Rosset, the newly appointed president of France’s largest Catholic-inspired scouting organization, resigned less than two months after her election amid intense criticism over her support for abortion rights and her homosexual relationship.” One of my deepest regrets is a I never attained the level of Eagle Scout, just a couple of merit badges shy.
Socialist. Anti-family.
https://socialismtoday.info/blog/2018/08/05/why-socialism-promotes-free-love-over-family/
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