Evil Gnostics

What do these people mean by "Gnostics" and Gnosticism"?

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Given that the Supreme court of the state of Connecticut by a 4-3 vote has now decreed that marriage will be made legal for same -sex couples, despite the state legislature action to the contrary, in your opinion are we seeing this latter day form of Gnosticism that you describe , predominantly in the nations that called themselves “developed" ?

Yes, the notion that "marriage," the primordial sacrament, can mean anything we want it to mean is about as pure a form of Gnosticism as you can find."

How do you square that this trend to deny the exercise of conscientious objection in health care appears predominantly (if not always) to involve the realm of sex and its consequences, like procured abortion ?

Abortion is not a matter of sexual morality, but of public justice: the fifth commandment, not the sixth. If, on the other hand, you're talking about prescribing contraceptives, etc., it's no accident that the New Gnostics want to use state power to coerce the Catholic conscience, because the Catholic Church is the last major, nationwide institutional barrier to their victory and the victory of the dictatorship of relativism.