- Robert H. Knight
Robert H. Knight is a conservative American activist and writer. He 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.cite web|title=Robert H. Knight|url=http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2110&department=CWA&categoryid|publisher=Concerned Women for America |date=2002-10-10|accessdate=2008-06-19] He is currently director of theCulture and Media Institute , a project founded in 2006 by theMedia Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia. [cite web|title=CMI Staff|url=http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/about/staff.aspx|publisher=CMI|date=|accessdate=2008-06-19] Also, Knight has served as director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate ofConcerned Women for America .Career
His career has included working in journalism, in which he had been a reporter for the "Maryland Coast Press" and "Maryland Gazette" after graduating from
American University , a news editor and writer for the "Los Angeles Times", and a Media Fellow at Stanford University’sHoover Institution . In 1992, he joined theFamily Research Council ; during his first ten years working in that organization, its budget and staff greatly increased. Knight left the FRC in March 2001.cite web|last=Morahan|first=Lawrence|title=Robert Knight: Getting to the Truth About Moral Relativism|url=http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=Culturearchive200108CUL20010801a.html|work=Cybercast News Service|date=2001-08-01|accessdate=2008-06-19]Viewpoints
An ardent opponent of
same-sex marriage , Knight has argued that: [cite web|last=Knight|first=Robert H.|title=Talking Points on Marriage: Giving "gay" relationships marital status will destroy marriage|url=http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/KnightMarriage.php|work=OrthodoxyToday.org|publisher=CWFA|date=2003|accessdate=2008-06-19]
*Giving gay relationships marital status will destroymarriage .
*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.In his arguments about homosexuality, Knight has occasionally used the studies of researcher Paul Cameron. [cite web|last=Dreyfuss|first=Robert|title=The Holy War On Gays|url=http://www.pflagdetroit.org/Holy_War_OnGays.htm|work=Rolling Stone|publisher=PFLAG Detroit|date=1999-03-18|accessdate=2008-06-19] He has also faced criticism for his anti-gay views: following the
U.S. Supreme Court case of "Boy Scouts of America v. Dale ",Bryant Gumbel of theCBS morning show "The Early Show " muttered an obscenity off-camera intended to attack Knight, and ABC television cancelled a scheduled appearance of Knight's for "Good Morning America " a few days later. [cite web|last=Graham|first=Tim|title=Did Gumbel Call Guest a 'F---ing Idiot'?|url=http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2000/20000630.asp|work=Reality Check|publisher=Media Research Center|date=2000-06-30|accessdate=2008-06-19]Written works
Knight is the author of "The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture", published in 1998 and 2000 by Spence Publishing. Additionally, editorials written by him have appeared in numerous American periodicals, including "
The Wall Street Journal " and "The Washington Post ". [cite news|last=Knight|first=Robert H.|title=Right Diagnosis, Wrong Remedy|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201847.html?nav=hcmodule|work=The Washington Post|date=2008-04-13|page=B6|accessdate=2008-06-19] Currently, he writes for the blogNewsbusters . [cite web|title=Robert Knight|url=http://newsbusters.org/bios/robert-knight.html|publisher=Newsbusters]Personal
He has a
B.S. and aM.S. inPolitical Science fromAmerican University . In 1981, he married his wife Barbara, with whom he now lives with his children.References
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