"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

Rosa Parks, with her simple refusal to hand over her dignity on a Montgomery bus, set the civil rights movement in motion. Such challenges to human dignity happen every day, all around us, and in many forms. I hope I can muster a fraction of Ms. Parks' vision to notice them and guts to stand up to them (or to remain sitting, in her case).

The most important legal issue facing our country: sodomy

Everyone's dying to know what Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers thinks about sodomy.

But on some far-right websites, details about Miers's background, much of it apparently mischaracterized, continued to fuel activist anger.

Webloggers seized on a 1998 report to the American Bar Association's rules and calendar committee that included recommendations for developing policy on an International Criminal Court and removing prohibitions to same-sex adoptions.

ABA officials have stressed that Miers's role in passing on the report was purely administrative, but a weblog called Pro Life News nevertheless called Miers ''Bush's Pro-Sodomite nominee."

Another weblog brouhaha erupted over Miers's support for equal civil rights for gays, when she ran for city council in 1989.

In the same campaign, however, Miers also said that she opposed the repeal of the state's law that made sodomy a criminal offense.
The Boston Globe

You're for sodomy! No I'm not, you are! Oh yeah, I'm rubber and you're glue and everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you, you big ol' Sodomite! [runs away sobbing]