Spanish Senate Takes Up Gay Marriage Bill

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/06/062105spain.htm

The Spanish Senate began debate Tuesday on the government's legislation to legalize same-sex marriage after the leader of the country's conservative opposition party delivered an apology for remarks made the day before by one of its own witnesses at a committee hearing.

The President of the Popular Party said his party regretted remarks made by Aquilino Polaino, a psychology professor at Madrid's Catholic university, who told the Senate committee that homosexuality was a "disease" and that gay adoption would turn children gay.

Polaino told the committee that homosexuality is "learned behavior" and "pathological in nature".

[marmar]

1. And Spain...

is considered one of the less progressive European countries, at least less progressive than northern Europe. Yet they manage to make the U.S. look Byzantine.