Gay couple protest Pope's Spanish visit with a Kiss

Oscar Pousa Míguez and Borja Furelos Couselo chose a more affectionate way to speak their minds in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, this afternoon, by kissing each other for the Pope.

As part of a nationwide Facebook-driven gay and lesbian kissing protest against the Pope's visit to Santiago and Barcelona this weekend, the couple kissed each other as the Pope's convoy drove by, on its way to a public Mass outside the city's cathedral.

Protests against the Catholic Church's views on a wide variety of topics, and the cost of the pontiff's visit have been taking place all week in Santiago.

On their decision to use kissing as a form of protest, Oscar says, "On a personal level, the idea of a homosexual kiss in front of the Pope is something unusual and certainly interesting. On a general level, I don't agree that even if I don't belong to the (Catholic) church, I have to pay taxes to them."

"If we didn´t have to pay for it all, then I wouldn´t mind, each to their own. But the problem is paying for something you strongly disagree with."

"A kiss reaches people. It's peaceful protest. You can't say anything against a kiss."

It is expected that tomorrow the Pope will be greeted in Barcelona by an even larger kissing protest.