Via Pharyngula:
Atheists caught having sex in cathedral
(CNN) — A man and a woman have been charged by police in Italy after they were found having sex in a confession box, it was reported Wednesday.
The Italian ANSA news agency said the young man and woman were taken into custody by police in the northern city of Cesena following a telephone complaint from a man attending morning Mass in the city’s cathedral.
Authorities were alerted after a parishoner heard “rustling and groaning” coming from inside the confession box and pulled back the curtains to reveal a goth-rock couple engaged in oral sex, ANSA said.
The agency said the pair — a 31-year-old laborer and a 32-year-old teacher — defended their conduct saying: “We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place.”
However, Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Cesena-Sarsina took said the couple’s behavior was “an outrage of notable proportions which bespeaks unutterable squalor.”
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
SCORE!
While this may be damaging to the reputations of Atheists, I have to applaud this couple. This kind of behaviour either requires massive amounts of alcohol or massive bowling-ball-sized testicles, or both. I can’t say I’ve ever had sex in a confession box. I’ve been “known” in a church parking lot or two and, a while back, in a sanctuary balcony, but never a confession box. I look up to these two lovebirds. Bravo!
Because they have to conduct a mass to purify the confessional, does that mean the guy finished even after the nosey parishioner broke confessional seal? That, my Italian friend, makes you awesome.
I want to read the transcript of the jizz-purification mass.
