Knight (born April 23, 1951) is an American conservative writer and activist.
He was a draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the barred federal recognition of same-sex marriage.
DOMA was invalidated by the Supreme Court in United States v.
Windsor (2013).
He is senior fellow of the American Civil Rights Union and a regular columnist for The Washington Times.
He was senior writer for Coral Ridge Ministries (now D.
James Kennedy Ministries) and director of the Culture and Media Institute, a project founded in 2006 by the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
Knight has also served as director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.