Here are two who were “close friends” in the Roman Catholic Church. Their relationship was long term, but the commitment was sufficiently loose to allow them to haunt “places frequented by gays” where one of them acquired AIDS and syphilis.
The pair decided to jump off a cliff together but, lacking the nerve, decided, after planning a list of hymns for their funerals, to hire hit men to finish them off instead.
This amalgam of comic pantomime and maudlin tragedy is brought to you courtesy of a church – the Roman Catholic Church this time – which turns a blind – or winking – eye to what used to be called sin.
Two gay Roman Catholic priests hired hitmen to kill themselves after one of them discovered he had Aids.
Rafael Reatiga, 35, and Richard Piffano, 37, who had been close friends since training, were discovered shot dead in a car in Southern Bogota, Colombia, in January last year.
Authorities initially suspected robbery but this week prosecutor Ana Patricia Larrota said investigators had determined that it was a case of suicide by hitmen.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Er … Nickie … Anything wrong with what, actually? Sure, you can’t help who you are in love with, but you can stop yourself haunting “places frequented by gays” (if they/one of them definitely did that). Yes, a very tragic story; RC priests must have terrible loneliness – but suppose a sexually lonely RC priest ends up touching a young/adolescent boy … anything wrong with that?