(Stuf4) wrote in message . com...
From Gene DiGennaro:
Sadly Pete Knight passed away Friday. My local newspaper The Baltimore
Sun had very little to say the pilot's adventures in the X-15. They
mostly concentrated on his stand regarding gay marriages. Frankly,
they nearly demonized the man.

As much as I admire Pete's aerospace accomplishments (let's not forget
X-20 selection) I certainly fault the man for disowning his own son
for being homosexual (I can only imagine how Pete acted toward his own
brother when he was dying of AIDS).

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OK...Who around here left the ladder by the moral pedestal? CT's done
climbed right up there and is casting stones, as if he has no faults
of his own.