The diamond in the ring he held had been passed down by his father. So had his bearing, the stance of a former fighter pilot and Gulf War veteran.
But it was the painful distance between father and son that stood at the fore as David Knight, the gay son of California’s leading opponent of same-sex marriage, wed his longtime partner here on Tuesday.
“I’m not here to confront my father; I’m here to confront his politics,” the son of Sen. William “Pete” Knight (R-Palmdale) said carefully. He did not want to hurt his 75-year-old parent, he said, but neither could he “just hide from him.”