Robert Knight is a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a regular weekly columnist for The Washington Times, Townhall.com, OneNewsNow.com and Barbwire.com, and is frequently published by AmericanThinker.com, DailyCaller.com and others. He was a journalist for 15 years, including seven as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University, and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has held senior positions at the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center. He wrote and directed the documentary videos Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion, and The Children of Table 34, about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. A draftsman of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, he is the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture, Fighting for America’s Soul, Radical Rulers, The Truth about Marriage, and several other books. He has debated the marriage issue on college campuses, including Cornell, the University of California Berkeley, Virginia Tech, Kent State, North Carolina State, the University of South Carolina and many others, and has testified before Congress and state legislatures. He has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Human Events, FrontPage.com, WorldNetDaily.com and many others, and appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, the BBC; Irish National Radio; CBS Evening News; NBC Nightly News; ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, Oprah and many others. He and his wife Barbara, who have grown children and a grandchild, live in northern Virginia.