Robert H. Knight
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Robert H. Knight was a draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the law that attempted to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman for all federal purposes and allows states to resist demands to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
Knight is currently director of the Culture and Media Institute, a project founded in 2006 by the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Before that, Knight was director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America. Knight was also a news editor and writer for the Los Angeles Times, and a Media Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
An ardent opponent of same-sex marriage, Knight has argued that:
- Giving gay relationships marital status will destroy marriage.
- Other groups, such as bisexuals and bigamists, will demand the right to redefine marriage to suit their own proclivities. Once the standard of one-man, one-woman marriage is broken, there is no logical stopping point.
Knight is the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture (Spence Publishing, 1998, 2000). He has a B.S. and a M.S. in Political Science from American University. He lives in the Washington D.C. area with his wife and children.
In his arguments about homosexuality, Knight has occasionally used the discredited studies of researcher Paul Cameron.
