David Knight, the gay son of State Sen. William "Pete" Knight, California's leading opponent of same-sex marriage, wed his longtime partner in San Francisco on Tuesday. The LA Times reports:
The middle son of the conservative author of [California's] Proposition 22, which defined marriage as being solely between a man and a woman, David Knight, now a 43-year-old woodworker, and Joseph Lazzaro, a 39-year-old specialist in interior architecture, kissed and held hands as they were pronounced "spouses for life" under the landmark rotunda where more than 3,600 gay and lesbian couples have married since Feb. 12. "
In a wave of civil disobedience that the elder Knight has denounced as a "sham" and a "sideshow," gays and lesbians have been married in New Mexico, New York and Oregon, in addition to the ceremonies here that have been solemnized in defiance of state law.
David Knight said that after Prop. 22 passed, "communication
effectively ended" between father and son, although six months ago
he called his father "just out of the blue, to see if we couldn't
slowly try to mend, but it was futile." Another example of how
brazenly anti-family the "family values" crowd truly is.