In her column of December 10, Ann Landers will reportedly repeat the apology she made for calling Pope John Paul II a “Polack,” but she also refuses to apologize for charging the Pope with being “antiwomen.”
Catholic League president William Donohue commented on this latest development:
“Anyone who makes sweeping generalizations blaming any ethnic or religious group for harboring a prejudice against any segment of the population is irresponsible. It is doubly irresponsible when such comments are made by public figures. The irony is that by blaming all Polish people—including the Pope—for being misogynist, Ann Landers reveals herself as the true bigot.
“If Landers were treated by the elites in our society the way people like Al Campanis, Jimmy the Greek or Marge Schott were, she would be subject to far more than ’40 lashes with a wet noodle.’ She would either be terminated or shipped off to some mind-control sensitivity training workshop.
“Landers can praise the Pope for being ‘heroic’ about lots of things, but in the end her unwillingness to make a full apology suggests that her animus against the Holy Father is deeper than previously expected.”
The Catholic League is the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization. It defends the right of Catholics—lay and clergy alike—to participate in American society without defamation or discrimination.
