Editing Paul Conrad (section)

==Controversies==
As an editorial cartoonist who openly editorialized from a liberal point of view on the issues of the day, Conrad was involved in many publicized political and religious disputes over his cartoons.<ref name="Rainey"/><ref name="McDougal">McDougal D. (2001). ''Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise And Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty''. Da Capo Press. {{ISBN|0738202703}}.</ref>{{rp|264–5}} In one dispute, he [[Yorty v. Chandler|was sued unsuccessfully]] by the then-Mayor of Los Angeles, [[Sam Yorty]], over an editorial cartoon portraying Yorty as crazy for thinking he would become [[Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon's]] Secretary of Defense.<ref name="Lamb">{{cite book|last1=Lamb|first1=Chris|title=Drawn to Extremes : the Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons|date=2004|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=9780231130660|page=[https://archive.org/details/drawntoextremesu0000lamb/page/200 200]|url=https://archive.org/details/drawntoextremesu0000lamb|url-access=registration|access-date=9 January 2018}}</ref>  In another, he angered conservatives when he compared them to white supremacist [[Buford Furrow]] in a cartoon.<ref name="Goldberg">Goldberg, D. (1999). Faith-Based Compassion. ''Tikkun'', 14(6): November/December.</ref> Conrad's cartoons often made fun of the [[governorship of Ronald Reagan]], leading his wife, Nancy Reagan, to phone publisher Otis Chandler and complain about how the cartoons were ruining her husband's breakfast. The calls were so frequent, Chandler had no choice but to stop taking them.<ref name="Halberstam"/><ref name="McDougal"/> In another dispute, members of the Jewish community of Los Angeles took issue with Conrad's portrayal of the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref name="Bentsur">Bentsur, E. (2001). ''Making Peace: A First-hand Account of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process''. Greenwood Publishing Group. {{ISBN|0275968766}}.</ref>{{rp|9–10}}

In the late 1970s, [[Pope Paul VI]] expressed his opinion against the [[Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women|ordination of women]], saying that priests must represent the image of Christ. This led Conrad to draw a cartoon of the pope holding a baby who resembled a miniature version of the pope in his image. Cardinal [[Timothy Manning]] complained to Conrad, but Conrad defended his work, arguing that what the "human soul" has in common is far more important that its appearance in the form of a man or woman.<ref name="Rainey"/> Conrad also criticized the Catholic church for not letting priests marry and for treating their nuns poorly.<ref name="Jones"/> "This is the type of church Christ had in mind?" he asked the ''National Catholic Reporter'' in 2001.<ref name="Jones"/>