so called experts

And more on the anti-gay views of conservatives in Spain (any minute now someone accross the Atlantic is going to call me a maoist queer...). The Partido Popular and Convergencia i Unio (Catalan Conservatives) vetoed in the Senate the government's plan to introduce gay weddings, a useless exercise because the bill will be passed next week at the Spanish Congress. A few days ago the Partido Popular appointed an 'expert' to back their cause at the Senate. Aquilino Polaino, a psychiatrist, claimed that gay people are ill and the outcome of alcoholic and abusive parents. This came as a shock to Partido Popular's representatives, who quickly dettached themselves from Polaino's speech, claiming that they're not homophobic and that they don't share these views. They can't get away from the fact, though, that Aquilino Polaino is their own man, the 'expert' they appointed and whose opinions made PP's attempts to provide some 'scientific' justification of their position backfire spectacularly. Well, here's some empirical evidence that right-wingers have small brains, I would say.