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No Cussing Club.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(high school student McKay Hatch)
"Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear." (Ephesians 4:29)
Oftentimes we associate late-night TV shows, such as the Tonight Show, with celebrities. However, on January 21, 2009, Jay Leno interviewed an unusual guest: 15-year-old McKay Hatch. In 2007, Hatch founded his first No Cussing Club at his junior high school in South Pasadena, California.
According to McKay's website, www. nocussing.com, the teen was dismayed at the language many of the children at his school, including some of his friends, were using. Rather than just put up with it, as so many of us are prone to do, he decided to do something about it. He mentioned it to his friends and actually challenged them to stop cussing.
He says his friends were shocked; most of them didn't even realize they were using offensive language, and certainly had no idea it was bothersome to Hatch. Surprisingly, and very pleasantly so, they accepted his challenge to stop swearing, and thus was born the first No Cussing Club. The word spread and after one ...
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