Connecticut Coalition of Reason
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At the Connecticut Coalition of Reason’s (CT CoR) annual meeting on January 15th Richard Siddall, President of the Humanist Association of Connecticut (HAC) and resident of Southbury, was re-elected co-chair; Dennis Paul Himes, Connecticut State Director for American Atheists and resident of Vernon was elected co-chair; and Rebecca Williams, secretary of the Hartford Area Humanists …
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Dennis Paul Himes Connecticut State Director–American Atheists On Wednesday, December 21st, I was proud to award the 2016 American Atheists’ Connecticut Activist of the Year Award to Jerry Bloom. The town of Shelton had for years allowed a religious display on town property every Christmas season, and when Bloom objected he was rebuffed. When he …
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Governor Dannel P. Malloy rejecting proclamation requests from the Connecticut Coalition of Reason (CT CoR) is getting to be so routine in Connecticut that you can set your calendar by it. The governator has just rejected the Yale Humanists Community’s request for a Carl Sagan Day proclamation. The reason given was that “Carl Sagan was not …
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Vernon, CT For the past nine years, the Connecticut Valley Atheists (CVA) have created a display on the public town green in response to other religious holiday displays allowed by the town. Nearby residents had always enjoyed and respected all of the displays until this year when only the atheist display was vandalized. …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 15, 2015 A new movement is spreading across Connecticut to celebrate the winter solstice in a way that brings together people across ethnicities and ideological boundaries. The winter solstice, the time when the days of sunlight start lengthening, harkens to the pre-historic roots of humanity and its common urge for …
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MEDIA ADVISORY. Following a successful launch on Sunday, October 18th, 2015, Greater Boston Oasis announces that UnitedCoR’s Executive Director (headquartered in Washington, DC) will be the featured guest speaker this coming Sunday, November 29, 2015. The Greater Boston Oasis has become a destination for nontheistic (atheist, agnostic, skeptic, humanist) people who want to feel a part …
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Cary Shaw, Connecticut CoR It’s not everyday that non-theistic groups are allowed to participate as equal partners in an “interfaith” setting. However, one of the cooperating groups with the Connecticut Coalition of Reason had this opportunity and used it to their advantage to let others at the event know why people are good without a god: …
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Can a nonreligious person follow Jesus? Muhammad? Buddha? What about Gandhi… or Darwin? In the pantheon of great thinkers, prophets, writers, scientists, artists, and leaders, to whom do you turn for inspiration, motivation, meaning, and ethical guidance? How do you implement their lessons in your life? Do you follow their examples? The Yale Humanist …
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Connecticut’s secular community was hoping for a perfect trifecta of political courage and intellectual integrity while waiting to see if the Governor would act on the proclamation request submitted by the CT Coalition of Reason in January. On January 26th representative Jim Himes (CT-4) sponsored the House Darwin Day resolution, HR67, which was cosponsored by representative …
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The 2015 Darwin Day event co-sponsored by CT Coalition of Reason member organizations, Humanists & Freethinkers of Fairfield County and the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Fairfield County, was a smashing success this year…literally. This year’s event held at the Norwalk Inn & Conference Center in Norwalk and billed as “Simply the BEST science party this …
