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 Thomas in February 2012 | |
| Born | John Calvin Thomas (1942-12-02)December 2, 1942 (age 82)[1] Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | American University |
| Occupation(s) | Political commentator, author, columnist |
John Calvin Thomas[2] (born December 2, 1942) is an Americansyndicatedcolumnist, author and radiocommentator.
Thomas was born in 1942 inWashington, D.C. He attendedAmerican University for his undergraduate education.
During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a reporter atNBC News. During a hiatus in his undergraduate education, he joined theU.S. Army, and served at theArmed Forces Radio inNew York.[3] His program onCNBC was nominated for aCableACE Award in 1995.[4] His column, which began in 1984, is syndicated byTribune Content Agency.[5] Thomas joined Fox News as a political contributor in 1997. He was a panelist onFox News Watch, aFox News Channel program critiquing media coverage, and until September 2005 hostedAfter Hours with Cal Thomas on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, syndicated bySalem Radio Network.
From 2005 until the end of 2015, Thomas had been a columnist forUSA Today, where he wrote articles with friend and political opposite,Bob Beckel, in the style of "point–counterpoint".[6]
Thomas has written extensively about political issues and he supports, among other things, many American positions related toIsrael.
He has written 10 books, includingBlinded by Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of theMoral Majority in American politics of the 1980s. Thomas was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985. Thomas is anevangelicalChristian,[7][8] and a member of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, affiliated with theEvangelical Presbyterian Church.[9]
In a 2014Washington Times article, Thomas claims, "Iranian nuclear negotiators joined withHolocaust deniers,9/11 truthers andanti-Semites from across the globe."[10]
In 2014, Thomas criticized the U.S. PresidentBarack Obama for "treating Israel as an enemy".[10]
In his article "Mumbai Explained", syndicated in December 2008, Thomas wrote that "no new [mosques] should be built" in Western countries following theMumbai terrorist attacks. He further claimed thatMuslim immigration posed a danger to the UK and United States.[11]
Following theJune 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub byISIS sympathizerOmar Mateen, Thomas called for a moratorium on construction of mosques in the United States until "radical Islamist ideology" could be "defeated".[12]
In a 2023 column, Thomas affirmed his support for Israel and the Zionist movement.[13]
AfterBill Clinton became the first sittingUnited States president to address agay rights organization, theHuman Rights Campaign,[14] Thomas published a column[15] in November 1997 opposing homosexuality, in which he said:
God designed norms for behavior that are in our best interests. When we act outside those norms—such as for premarital sex, adultery, or homosexual sex—we cause physical, emotional, and spiritual damage to ourselves and to our wider culture. The unpleasant consequences of divorce and sexually transmitted diseases are not the result of intolerant bigots seeking to denigrate others. They are the result of violating God's standards, which were made for our benefit.
— Cal Thomas, "Immutable Morals"
Thomas published a similar column[16] on October 16, 2009, afterBarack Obama became the second sitting United States president to address theHuman Rights Campaign.[14] Thomas said:
We will get more of what we tolerate. Sexual behavior is an important cultural and moral issue. Mr. Obama won the election with just 52 percent of the popular vote and a margin of 7 percent over Sen. John McCain. This should not be seen as a mandate for him and his administration to make over America in a secular and liberal image. Neither should it be seen as an invitation to give blanket approval to homosexuality, considered by some to be against the best interests of the people who practice it as well as the nations that accept it.
— Cal Thomas, "Don't Ask, Tell or Legitimize"
Thomas was married to Charlotte Ray Thomas for 51 years until her death in 2017.[17] Thomas married CJ Berwick, a classmate fromWalter Johnson High School, in 2018.[18] The couple reside in Key Largo, Florida as of 2020[update].[19]
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 Booknotes interview with Thomas onThe Things That Matter Most, July 10, 1994,C-SPAN |
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