Sen. Pete Knight is dead.

[yesthattom]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/08/obituary1543EDT0563.DTL

Sen. Pete Knight is dead. I don't think he'd care whether or not I'm glad.

"Sen. Knight recently told The Associated Press that his drive to keep gays from marrying didn't make him anti-gay."

Knight is survived by his wife, three sons, four stepsons and 15 grandchildren. One of whom is gay, and got married in SF while his father was leading the anti-gay marriage initiative.

His son wasn't available for comment, but his son's partner "said David Knight was not ready to comment on his father's death, and declined to say whether David and his father had reconciled."

My father died less than a year ago. My dad and I didn't have anything to reconcile, but we weren't that close. A week before he passed away I did get to talk with him in private about all the things I wanted him to know before his cancer would overtake his body and kill him. I told him how much I loved him, how I never got to thank him for being the oasis in my very difficult young life. Afterwords I cried my eyes out.

I hope David got to have such a moment with his father. But if it meant their last words were, "I still hate fags", then there's a special place in hell for Sen. Knight. And for that, I'm not glad.

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[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Heard it on the radio yesterday. Personally, I'd like to find out where he's going to be buried and if I'm ever in the area I'd like to go spit on his grave.

Speaking as a Californian who has had to deal with the Prop 22 election.. having 61% be called an "overwhelming majority of Californians" as an excuse to discriminate.. and basically all the unhappiness he has ever caused.

I, for one, am not unhappy this monster of a man has died. And if he believed in "God" I hope his "God" has told him what a rotten bastard he was on earth and has given him his appropriate "reward"...

And I don't feel bad being happy that he's dead. Only until the old homophobic generation has finally all passed away can we ever hope to get true equality.. Ah you know.. the choir and all. :-P