When Adam and Steve earn the right to get hitched along with Adam and Eve?

Post-coital e-fag optional.

And notwithstanding the curiously conservative opposition of Prime Minister Julia Gillard who claimed before the 2010 election that the Marriage Act would not be changed while she was PM.

Or certainly allow "him-and-him" splicings that mimicked marriage.

Despite Julia being shacked up with that Tim bloke in The Lodge to whom she's not betrothed.

Just as curious is how former PM Kevin Rudd, a committed Christian, has kicked the cause along in the interests of "the church and state having different positions and practices on the question of same-sex marriage"?

Nice one, Kev, and nothing at all to do with the PM's position and your own joust at power backed by sharing and caring voters, hey?

Mind you, some other Christian persons can be expected to object to guys holding hands at the altar or in a civil ceremony.

That includes, inevitably, Bible bashers brandishing such wonderful fire-and-brimstone passages as Leviticus 20:13 which warns that "if a man lies with another man, they should be stoned".

It took a correspondent to another Tassie newspaper to point out that the US state of Washington had perhaps fallen into line here by simultaneously legalising not only same-sex marriage but also marijuana smoking.

Which, in the words of the letter writer, settles that argument meaning the injunction "hadn't been interpreted correctly until now".

Anyway, there you go then, the gays' battle to get hitched may soon be won, the final provocative word hurled, the last banner furled.

Yet while there may well be much merriment and lighting of celebratory bonfires in the, er, camp, many of the pledged pink dollars ready to flood into the state may need to be directed at counselling services for professional gay marriage advocates feeling empty and exhausted after having achieved their ambition.

Yes, folks, as ever the difficulty for the long-term professional protester is not only what to do for an encore but maintain the rage and keep that dreaded Relevance Deprivation Syndrome at bay.

Following any change to federal marriage laws, married gays may well get on with raising their adopted kiddies behind the white picket fence.

Or - and more likely - feel the keen need to seek rights for other minorities.

We can see social activists moving into position to promote polygamy and polyandry.

Or even, as London magazine The Spectator writer Charles Moore points out, "that gay people could marry polygamously".

And "Muslims, the most important believers in polygamy, hold that a man may have up to four wives, but not the other way round".

Obviously a few more "marriage rights and equality" bridges to cross there.

Meanwhile, an intimation of what may well occur on the gay marriage front is granted by "look at moi" Tasmanian environmentalists after winning the battle of the trees.

Having saved around half-a- million hectares of arborial splendour are greensters content to retire to their smoke-filled mud-brick huts and peacefully consume tubs of tofu and drink litres of dandelion wine.

Are they what?

Not likely, as they now attack yet another of the state's value-adding and employment-enhancing enterprises, the mining industry.

Which saw last weekend's gratifying response at Tullah where 2000 miners trucked in to say they didn't like plans to lock up the Tarkine and deny them work.

After that, perchance, the state's fishing industry will be in their sights. Rowdy elements never rest on their laurels.

Rebels without a pause, indeed.