Random Guy writes about the "far left". Never mind that Michael Cook is an opus dei propagandist. In my opinion you cant get much further far right than that.
If you do your homework you will find that opus dei is closely associated with many/most of the right-wing stink tanks in the USA, and much more besides.

Sorry, just explain again how supporting gay marriage is going to ruin Tasmania economically, because I must have missed that bit.

"None of the claims made by supporters of same-sex marriage has been scrutinised as they would certainly be in Mainland states. Instead, The Mercury has scathingly ridiculed opponents as bigots."

It sounds to me as if the Mercury HAS scrutinised them, then, and found them to be sound and sensible, just as we have on the mainland. Seriously, if there is one rational argument against gay marriage in particular -- as opposed to rational arguments against marriage in general, of which there are many -- I have yet to hear it.

...A very refreshing article by Michael Cook: Tasmanians should ready for a counteractive political pendulum swing, “Newman style”: His Government rolled-back same sex legislation of the Labor era as a priority; then followed with an economic rationalistic “blitzkrieg”!

For crying out loud, just get the right Rev. Moon next saturday & marry all & & everyone & everything in Tasmania & be done with that nonsense. There are important issues to deal with.

Individual:

I can't ignore homosexual marriage...its an affront to normality! But I agree that this is an issue which is irrelevant when compared to real-life issues of the broader community, (a point of the article)!...

Left handed people are an affront to normality. They are a minority who have tried and succeeded in convincing almost everyone, that left handedness is a normal aberration, ditto ambidextrous ability!
[ 99 change hands.]
Yet they are different from the mainstream and therefore they deserve to be discriminated against and made to follow normal right handedness.
An occasional belt on the knuckles with the side of a ruler during school hours, ought to suffice? And force these disciples of difference to get with the program, or refrain from any form of written communication.
We simply cannot tolerate things like left handed bows, arrows, screwdrivers, axes! shovels, chisels, hammers, saws, planes, pencils pens combs, whips, guitars, keyboards and just lately, left handed harps and harpsichords, where all the bass notes are at the (WRONG) right end; and or, struck with the right (WRONG) hand.
An affront to normal musicians, artisans, smiths, who play or craft normally, part their hair on the left side, which is the right side, the right side being the wrong side; and so on and so forth.
Alleged allegorical sermon from Dark Age, Medieval Mount Double Dumbed Down Duffy, on a six thousand year old, flat as a pancake, waterless planet plate? [Well, flat surfaces, routinely angled or turned to produce day and night, simply cannot hold any water?]
Delivered about two thousand years ago, and served with several tons of bread and fish, served from a single hand carried basket, and topped with heaping helpings of tartare sauce, goat's cheese, sour cream, salt and vinegar; and extreme ignorance?
And then washed down with wine and multicoloured miracles, leprosy cures, Lazarus rising, and walking on water type entertainment?
Rhrosty.