Dr. Sheldon Hackney can't remember a time when he wasn't on the liberal side of America's culture wars. He still struggles to explain how it came to be that way.
He was born 72 years ago and raised in Birmingham, Ala., in a "completely conventional, conservative" Southern family.
Cong. William Delahunt describes himself as an eternal optimist. Still, his optimism comes easier now than it did four years ago.
Opposition to the agenda of President Bush and, in particular, his Iraq war were not so popular back then. Today he finds himself on the right side of history and the popular mood.