There's a moving story in the New York Times about "an unlikely alliance between Joe Tom Easley, a lawyer and well-known gay activist, and Robert Reilly, a Defense Department adviser reviled in gay circles for an article he once wrote calling homosexuality 'morally disordered,'" who cooperated to bring a disfigured and half-blinded Iraqi boy to the U.S. for cosmetic and eye surgery.
When people can connect on a human level beyond political
polarization, small miracles can happen.