Love is like pi – natural, irrational and very important. --
Lisa Hoffman
Today, as mentioned in an earlier post, is Pi Day, because
the way Americans abbreviate the date – 3/14/15 – coincides with the first few
digits of the number/relationship represented by the Greek letter pi.
There are any number of bad jokes and stories about pi,
mostly depending on the pun with pie. One story, purely apocryphal, is about
the legislature in a Deep South state that passed a law making pi equal to 3 in
order to simplify matters. "Ha, ha, ha!" we all laugh, because such a law would simplify matters by making them fail to correspond to the real world.
But when you look at many legislative efforts in the Deep
South to avoid recognizing the reality of same-sex love and marriage, those
efforts seem as foolish. You can pass all the laws you want, but nothing will
change the fact that certain mathematical relationships that describe the real
world can only be expressed using the irrational number, pi.
And you can pass all the laws you want denying that same sex
couples deserve the right to marry, are in fact marrying in many countries and
most states, and that will have no impact on the real world.
Yes, Deep South, there is pi. And there are legitimate same
sex marriages and real same sex families and … well, there are more things in
the real world than are refused to be dreamed of in your fantasies.
Go out, get a piece of pie and enjoy life instead of trying to mess with things beyond your control.
4 comments:
Luckily for us in South Carolina, we have marriage equality and recent polls that show the majority of South Carolinians have no issue with it, or find it has a negative impact on their lives, or see what the fuss was all about.
in South Carolina! go figure!
I'm so mad. we knew it was pi day and was going tpo pick up an apple pie to celebrate(hubby loves pie in and way, shape or form and LIVES for pi day) but somehow when we got home we realized we had managed to forget to buy it.
As I have resumed the weigh loss regime and Saturday is my "ONE TREAT Meal" day for the week- we just lost out. It wouldn't be the same any other day...Pi day was just MEANT for PIE!!!
As for Bob Slatten's comment-as you know already, I'm originally from good ole SC- and the good peoples of that state don't have an issue with marriage equality...... for the most part. However, the ones that DO take issue with it MORE than make up for the others and are the ones who get all the publicity and attention making the rest of us look like ignorant bigoted hicks. Such a shame.......
I've come to realize that the people who are the so called "different" ones are usually the most tolerant and open-minded of us all.
I sure hope so; I am not feeling so optimistic about it all these days.
I know what you mean...look how long it's taken for woment to be accepted into the working world- and they STILL dont make equal wages and have the same choices and opportunities in their lives even in this goldent age. It will evolve with time....but time moves slowly- and the ones who arent embracing the changes are the ones who are losing out on knowing some of the most wonderful people in the world. I most certainly am not one of the ones losing out. I know good people when I see them.
Sunny :)
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