Hi, i just wanted to try and clarify some issues raised here:
1.- As far as Francis' position against gay marriage, he is against using the word "marriage" to describe the procedure, ceremony and result of such a union. But he is perfectly fine with "civil union" instead.
A few years before the legalization of gay marriage here in Argentina (which he was against, as many people here have pointed out previously) the city of Buenos Aires legalized the civil union, which was essentially the same, only excluding the right to inheritance between the newly united couples (because that could only be changed by the federal government) and the right of adoption (also, an issues that only the federal government can change), and he did not oppose it, he was actually in favor of it and took quite a beating from the catholic right wing because of it.
2.- As far as the accusations of colluding the last military junta, theese accusations were made by a journalist known for his ties with the government, a government that has been in conflict with Bergoglio simply because he is not affraid to call them on the rampant corruption, poverty and insecurity in my country.
All the apolitical figures of the human rights fight during the last junta, like Adolfo Perez Esquivel (novel peace laureate), Alicia Oliveira (Founder of the Center for Legal and Social studies) and Graciela Fernandez Meijide (ex-senator and mother of a son that was "vanished" by the junta), have said that the accusations are completely false.
As far as what the founder of the "Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo" and the founder of the "Madres de Plaza de Mayo" have both said, both groups have lost all credibility here in Argentina in the last decade, since they have been attaking and accusing anyone who opposes or dares to criticise the current administration of beeing a supporter of the last military junta.