From 2005 until the end of 2015, Thomas had been a columnist for USA Today, where he wrote articles with friend and political opposite, Bob Beckel, in the style of "point–counterpoint".

He has written 10 books, including Blinded by Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s.

[9] In a 2014 Washington Times article, Thomas claims, "Iranian nuclear negotiators joined with Holocaust deniers, 9/11 truthers and anti-Semites from across the globe.

[11] Following the June 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub by ISIS sympathizer Omar Mateen, Thomas called for a moratorium on construction of mosques in the United States until "radical Islamist ideology" could be "defeated".

They are the result of violating God's standards, which were made for our benefit.Thomas published a similar column[16] on October 16, 2009, after Barack Obama became the second sitting United States president to address the Human Rights Campaign.

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.Thomas was married to Charlotte Ray Thomas for 51 years until her death in 2017.