Daily Links: Study blames clerical child abuse on mandatory celibacy and homophobia

• Major new study concludes the Catholic Church’s mandatory celibacy requirement and deeply homophobic culture are prime contributors to its perennial child sex abuse problem.

• Speaking of which, another “high-ranking priest” is charged with child porn possession. So of course the Vatican turned him in recalled him to safety in the Vatican.
  (via Joe.My.God.)

• Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyer threatens to sue a Harvard Law professor over his criticism published in The Boston Globe. The professor schools him hard.
  (via @adamsteinbaugh; RT: @Popehat)

• “This is why we have racism”: Christians react to a Virginia school superintendent’s decision to take down a prayer plaque to avoid a lawsuit.

• Finally, London’s Science Museum and Natural History Museum are duking it out on Twitter and it’s a wonderful time to be alive.

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