# 'Gay weddings' become law in UK

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-05-gay-weddings-become-law-in-uk

The post argues that civil partnerships reveal the ritual basis of marriage and that changes in heterosexual marriage made same-sex marriage conceptually possible.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2005

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/gay-weddings-become-law-in-uk/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 5 December 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: gay-rights, marriage, ritual, conceptual-blending.

## Related

- [Welcome to Dominik's Week in Thought](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-17-welcome-to-dominiks-week-in-thought) (Blog post · 17 November 2005)
- [Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-18-reason-fact-and-fiction-on-evolution-intelligent-designs-five-favorit) (Blog post · 18 November 2005)
- [Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-access-vs-close-reading-journalism-as-a-metaphor-for-educational-stan) (Blog post · 21 November 2005)
- [Blending a life: Personal narratives of public events](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-04-26-blending-a-life-personal-narratives-of-public-events) (Blog post · 26 April 2007)
- [The rituals and mythic nature of democracy and the press](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-11-21-the-rituals-and-mythic-nature-of-democracy) (Blog post · 21 November 2005)
- [Conceptual consequences](https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2005-12-02-conceptual-consequences) (Blog post · 2 December 2005)

Section: [Writing](https://dominiklukes.net/writing)