About 20 American homosexuals demonstrated at the Vatican Jan. 3 to Jan. 7, outside the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The members of Soulforce and Dignity/USA said they were protesting Catholic Church teaching on homosexuality.
The church considers any sexual act that is not open to the possibility of procreation to be a mortal sin. (A mortal sin, which is more serious than a venal sin, that has not been absolved in confession prior to one’s death condemns one’s soul to hell.)
The procreation stance leads the church to also categorize birth control, masturbation and oral sex as mortal sins.
“I don’t think they love God’s gay children like they love God’s straight children,” Soulforce Executive Director Mel White told reporters.