Now, They Hug

Robert Samuels: URBANDALE, Iowa — As this state's most visible culture warriors, Bob Vander Plaats and Donna Red Wing have hurled insults at each other for years.

Vander Plaats's organization, The Family Leader, has derided same-sex marriages such as Red Wing's as "unnatural." Red Wing, leader of the LGBT rights group One Iowa, has called Vander Plaats "bigoted" and "cruel."

But when they ran into each other on the day the Supreme Court declared that same-sex couples could marry anywhere in the country, crossing paths between dueling interviews at a local TV station studio, they locked eyes.

And then they hugged.