Vatican City 2013 papal election

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/americas/pope-francis-old-colleagues-recall-pragmatic-streak.html?hp

Apparently Bergoglio tried to convince the rest of the Argentine bishops to accept civil unions instead of going total opposition when Argentina was moving to legalize gay marriage in 2010.

I really think he's going to be pretty much the best pope we could have reasonably hoped for.

Wow, that is surprising. Maybe he thought civil unions made gay marriage less likely, but I think we have seen that isn't the case. Plenty of places have had civil unions / domestic partnerships, and either then got gay marriage, or likely soon will. In fact, in the 9th circuit court ruling of Perry vs. Brown (who clearly wasn't defending Prop. 8 ), California's domestic partnerships were successfully used as a reason for why California should have gay marriage.