VALENCIA, SPAIN - A gay couple and a lesbian couple tied the knot Sunday in Valencia during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the Spanish city.Jose Francisco Lamo and Luisa Notario pledged undying love to their respective partners as elsewhere in the city the pope said mass before a congregation of more than a million at the climax of his two-day visit to Catholic Spain.
During the service he praised marriage between man and woman as "a great good for all humanity."
"It may not please the pope, but two families have been founded here," a spokesman for the Lambda gay association said.
The marriages were celebrated in Valencia's town hall.
The timing was chosen specifically to criticise the church's stance on sexual morality and to promote the "diversity of the family," according to Lambda.
At an open-air mass in the city, Benedict said the family was based on the "insoluble marriage between man and woman" and helped humans relate to their children and community.
Marriage was "a great good for all humanity," the pope reiterated at the airport, where he took leave of the royal couple and other dignitaries before leaving for Rome.
Spain legalized gay marriages a year ago. Gay couples are also allowed to adopt children.
from Bangkok Post
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