21 Aug 2011 - 07:36pm
About 100 gays and lesbians have protested in Madrid against Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Spain and the Vatican's fierce opposition to same-sex marriages.
The protesters, some with young children in tow, held up signs that read 'I am in favour of all families' and 'Secular state' as they stood in front of dozens of balloons of different sizes and colours on Saturday.
'We do not want to return to a time when the Church would decide what a family is, when marriages were only through the Church,' said Miguel Angel Sanchez, 43, the president of gay rights group Fundacion Triangulo which organised the protest.
'The Catholic Church did not come to carry out a religious act in Spain, it has come to stage a political act to demonstrate its political and economic power because it is aware that Spain no longer follows its doctrine.'
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