Praxidice, "normal" is about being respectful to all, and not attempting to impose your personal beliefs on others.
You may have "A Chip on your Shoulder", but do your have what it takes to be an Anarchist, as by reading your posts you appear to lack substance in offering an alternative.

Things have to change when state regulation of
marriage is unable to ensure the fundamentals of
adulthood and choice - then appropriate legislation
is warranted especially in a country which supposedly
has the separation of state and church.

It's not a question of "if" this will happen.
It's a question of "when."

The will of the people will prevail.

Dear Lexi,

<<state regulation of marriage is unable to ensure the fundamentals of adulthood and choice>>

I am not aware of any state regulation of marriage or denial of the fundamentals of adulthood and choice in Australia [in the area of committed personal relationships, obviously there are many restricting regulations of adult choice in other areas of life].

Anyone can already marry anyone (or even more than one) in Australia - the only question is whether or not they can pay a fee and receive an official piece of paper in return.

Dear Yuyutsu,

It is the legilsation that is being questioned.
When the Marriage Act is unable to ensure the
fundamentals of adulthood and choice then
appropriate legislative change is warranted.
After all the principles of liberal democracy
holds that consenting adults shall be able to make
any union they wish.

Dear Lexi,

Do you care to explain in what way(s) existing legislation restricts the fundamentals of adulthood and choice?

Yes, the principles of liberal democracy hold that consenting adults shall be able to make any union they wish, but isn't that the case already? Why try to fix what is not broken?

All that activists are currently fighting for is the right of a same-gender couple to pay a fee and receive a piece of paper in return. Why not just save that fee?

Yuyuttsu,

I suppose it's for exactly the same reason as that enjoyed by heterosexual couples....official recognition of the union.