Today Pope Benedict arrived in Spain as a pilgrim and to confirm the Catholic people in their faith. In his address at the welcoming ceremony, the Holy Father encouraged both Spain and Europe to

I must admit that I'm not on Facebook and so I cannot check out their website.

May God have mercy on their wretched souls

You know, I'll never understand why people would do things that would make them look bad as a way to get people to understand and accept them. This is like a guy who wants to get in to a club but can't so he'll pull a gun on the guy at the door to get in.

If you are gay that's fine with me but just because some people don't agree with you does not mean you have to go out and purposely act stupid.

The thing of it is those participating in the Queer KIssmob event don't think these things they do are bad or look bad. I mean that's why they call it "gay pride".  They are proud of and flaunt what they do.

For them, it's the Pope and 2,000 years of constant Catholic Church teachings as well as Sacred Scripture that condemn the practice of homosexuality they insist must change.

We know that from reading their statement....

The following news article mentions the Pope's reaction to the homosexual kiss-in.

Pope Repeatedly Defends Life and Family During Visit to Spain

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

BARCELONA, November 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – During this weekend’s visit to Spain, Pope Benedict XVI repeatedly defended traditional Spanish family values and the sacredness of human life from conception until natural death, against the onslaughts of what he termed an “aggressive secularism.” Spain is currently ruled by the militantly secularist socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, which earlier this year passed a new abortion law that permits women to have their unborn children killed by a doctor for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

"Life has changed greatly," the Pope stated at Sunday's dedication Mass at Barcelona's Church of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family), which Pope Benedict consecrated as a minor basilica. "And with it enormous progress has been made in the technical, social and cultural spheres. We cannot simply remain content with these advances.”

The pope said that there needs to be “moral advances” that accompany technological advances, “such as in care, protection and assistance to families.” Benedict praised natural marriage, saying that “the generous and indissoluble love of a man and a woman is the effective context and foundation of human life in its gestation, birth, growth and natural end."

"Only where love and faithfulness are present can true freedom come to birth and endure," Pope Benedict affirmed at the Mass, attended by over 6,500 faithful, including King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia.

The Pope then went on to affirm the Church’s stance in favor of appropriate “economic and social means” so that men and women who get married and start a family can “receive decisive support from the state,” “that the lives of children may be defended as sacred and inviolable from the moment of their conception,” and “that the reality of birth be given due respect and receive juridical, social and legislative support.”

“The Church,” continued the Pope, “resists every form of denial of human life and gives its support to everything that would promote the natural order in the sphere of the institution of the family."

Despite the large crowds that came out to hear the pontiff, not all agreed with his message. While traveling to the Church of the Sagrada Familia, the Holy Father had encountered a demonstration by a group of homosexuals who protested the Catholic Church's position on homosexuality by public kissing and shouting "get out" and "pedophile" as Benedict passed by in the popemobile.

A spokesman for the group, which calls itself Queer Kissing FlashMob, told the press, "We are here to demonstrate against the pope's visit and call for a change in the mentality of the Catholic institution which still opposes our right to different ways of loving."

But later on Sunday, during the Angelis, the pope again repeated his message in support of the value of human life and the natural family. Jesus, said the pope, taught us “without words,” “in the silence of the home of Nazareth,” “of the dignity and the primordial value of marriage and the family, the hope of humanity, in which life finds its welcome from conception to natural death."

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What happened to the the group's Facebook page which had called upon participants to avoid all verbal forms of expression and gestures of hostility?