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I’ve read and re-read Cal Thomas’s July 11 column. It seems Thomas has swallowed a specious and a spurious fantasy: America was founded as a Christian nation, and thus manifested American exceptionalism.
I’m a Christian believer and a minister, who found Thomas’s anemic, westernized, weak-kneed pity party for Christianity an affront, which required a rebuttal.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado baker who refused to prepare a cake for a same-sex ceremony was justified based on his religious beliefs. Whereas, the same august body remanded a similar case back to the Washington State Supreme Court. It involved Barronelle Stutzman, a flower shop owner, who refused to provide flowers for a same-sex couple’s ceremony.
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By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life.
Avant-garde (her father reportedly changed her surname from Heard in honor of jazz legend John Coltrane) recently won the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee, the first African American to win the highly competitive spelling contest. She told reporters afterward that she studied 13,000 words a day. A DAY!
There are many lessons that should be learned from her remarkable achievement. Here are two of them:
Former President Barack Obama tweeted: âThree Guinness World Records (related to her prowess at basketball dribbling) and now the national spelling bee champ! Congrats, Zaila â your hard work is paying off. Weâre all proud of you.â
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Cal Thomas: Zaila and the Bee
People who are tenacious, overcome obstacles and succeed used to be part of the American story, a story we were happy to share to encourage others. What happened to it? Why do we focus less on success and more on envying and penalizing the successful? Why is there the constant drumbeat in our politics and most of the media about the unsuccessful and the proposals by certain politicians to throw good money after bad on programs that have mostly not worked?
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Cal Thomas
By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life.