Around 300 people (mostly it seems members of the LGBT community) faced the loveless streets of London on a wintry Valentine's Day afternoon to voice their opposition to the seemingly growing political interference of the Vatican and the Pope in European and British politics.
The protesters gathered outside Westminster Cathedral before joyfully marching all the way to the Italian Embassy in Grosvenor Square, followed by three hymn singing Catholics. At the embassy, they listened to a series of speakers of humanist and secularist persuasions listing the wrongs of the Catholic hierarchy.