Pliny, "Great to hear you saying this David. See what you can do about getting rid of Section 18C and the HRC and its egregious chairperson"

Well said!

It is hypocritical of the author to stand for free speech, but then move and support the Freedom to Marry Bill 2014 in the Senate, which if enacted would legalise same-sex marriage that in turn would result in freedom of speech being suppressed by the authoritarian homosexual lobby , as has happened in other countries, e.g. Canada and the UK.

Journalist Brendan O’Neill recently pointed out that wherever same-sex ‘marriage’ has been legalised, “it has battered freedom, not boosted it. Debate has been chilled, dissenters harried, critics tear-gassed. … There are awkward questions the ‘freedom to marry’ folks just can’t answer. Like: if gay marriage is a liberal cause, how come it’s been attended by authoritarianism wherever it’s been introduced?” Read more at
(1) http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/9390702/gay-marriage-and-the-death-of-freedom/

Dear Raycom,

The gay-marriage brigade cares not for gay people, but uses them as a hammer in their class-wars. Once they break that particular wall, they necessarily pursue the next. Gay/homosexual people never in fact required their services.

Thus it is not gay-marriage which causes violence, but the turning of all that energy that was previously occupied in fighting for gay-marriage onto pushing the next domino, be it free-speech or whatever else stands in the way of the communist revolution.

Gay marriage itself is benign - however, the current proposal goes against classical liberal principles because what it effectively does is to expand an existing government service: the classical liberal approach should be to dislodge the rite of marriage altogether from the jaws of the state.

"the classical liberal approach should be to dislodge the rite of marriage altogether from the jaws of the state."
Precisely, Yuyutsu.