From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

United Coalition of Reason

none

Summary

none

Field	Value
name	United Coalition of Reason
abbreviation	UnitedCoR
formation	2009
type	non-profit
status	foundation
purpose	secularism, atheism
headquarters	Washington, D.C.
region_served
language	English
website

The United Coalition of Reason, or UnitedCoR for short, is a national organization in the United States that works to raise the visibility of local groups in the community of reason. Nationally this is done by conducting campaigns that highlight the fact that nontheists live in every community across America. Locally this is done by organizing and nurturing local groups to communicate with each other and hold events and other outreach activities.

History

The organization was founded in January 2009 by a philanthropist and entrepreneur from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its first year created a network of twenty local coalitions, drawing worldwide notice. This effort included the sponsoring of several ad/media campaigns around the country such as non-believer billboard and bus ads in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 2010 the organization launched ten more local coalitions with the help of the American Humanist Association and paved the way for numerous others to launch in 2011. The most significant developments during 2010 were acts of vandalism against billboards or bus ads in Sacramento, California; Detroit, Michigan; and St. Augustine, Florida. Also significant was a call by local clergy in Fort Worth, Texas, for a boycott of the bus system because of ads by the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason.

Goals

The organization's website describes four key goals, all achieved without soliciting donations from local leaders or other organizations:

To promote science and reason, humanist values instead of faith-based reasoning in community and government decision-making,
To celebrate a global nonreligious philosophy of life and create a safe place for nontheists to speak openly,
To stand up for the rights of nontheists, ending discrimination and securing a normalized place for them in families, communities, the law, and in public debate,
And to speak out against the privileges and abuse of religious organizations, while finding common ground with people who express theistic beliefs.

Participating Coalitions and Locations

Although not a full member, the national coalition has endorsed the mission of the Secular Coalition for America. UnitedCoR has itself been endorsed by or has cooperative relations with American Atheists, the American Ethical Union, the American Humanist Association, the Center for Inquiry, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Atheist Alliance International, the Military Association of Atheists & Freethinkers, the Humanist Society, FreeThoughtAction, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, the Secular Policy Institute, the Association for Mindfulness Meditation and Secular Buddhism, the Richard Dawkins Foundation, the Secular Student Alliance and many others.

The organization has local coalitions all over the United States and in Canada in:

Mobile, Alabama
Phoenix, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Vancouver, British Columbia
Butte County, California
Fresno, California
Los Angeles, California
Modesto, California
Orange County, California
Sacramento, California
San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
San Luis Obispo, California
Silicon Valley, California
Stockton, California
Colorado
Connecticut
Washington, DC
Jacksonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Pensacola, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida
Tampa Bay, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Boise, Idaho
Moscow, Idaho
Chicago, Illinois
Springfield, Illinois
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Wichita, Kansas
Lexington, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Boston, Massachusetts
Baltimore, Maryland
Detroit, Michigan
Gulfport, Mississippi
St. Louis, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Omaha, Nebraska
Las Vegas, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
Asheville, North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Triad, North Carolina
The Triangle, North Carolina
Fargo, North Dakota
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Portland, Oregon
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Columbia, South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina
South Dakota
Austin, Texas
Bryan-College Station, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Salt Lake City, Utah
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Roanoke, Virginia
Pullman, Washington
Richland, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Morgantown, West Virginia
Madison, Wisconsin

References

"What We Do". UnitedCoR.
Buxbaum, Evan. (2009-10-21). "Atheist ads to adorn New York subway stations". [[CNN]].
Speckhardt, Roy. (2015-07-28). "Creating Change Through Humanism". Humanist Press.
Goodstein, Laurie. (2009-04-26). "More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops". [[The New York Times]].
''Hard CoR News'', Vol. 1, Issue 1, https://unitedcor.org/unitedcor-newsletters/
Brown, Matthew. (2009-12-03). "Group organizes to be 'good without God'". [[The Baltimore Sun]].
Silumi, Kristen. (2009-11-02). "Atheism in the US". [[Al Jazeera English.
Tu, Janet I.. (2009-03-29). "Local atheists lift their voices in Metro bus ads". [[The Seattle Times]].
Rose, Joseph. (2009-11-18). "Atheist ad tells TriMet commuters they can be 'good without God'". [[The Oregonian]].
Staff. (2010-01-12). ""Godless" billboard at Lake City Way". Seattle Atheists.
(March 1, 2010). "Two More Godless Billboards Vandalized". United Coalition of Reason.
(March 15, 2010). "Detroit's Godless Bus Ads Vandalized". United Coalition of Reason.
(April 13, 2010). "St. Augustine's Godless Billboard Mysteriously Damaged". United Coalition of Reason.
Dickson, Gordon. (2010-12-07). "Threatened boycott of Fort Worth buses has no noticeable impact". [[The Fort Worth Star-Telegram]].
Staff. "Endorsing Organizations". [[Secular Coalition for America]].
Staff. (2010). "United Coalition of Reason". United Coalition of Reason.
"Cooperating National Groups - United CoR". United CoR.
"UnitedCoR national website Map page".
[http://unitedcor.org/gulf-coast/page/home/ Gulf Coast Coalition of Reason (Gulf Coast CoR)]
[http://arizonacor.org/ Arizona Coalition of Reason (ArizonaCoR)]
[http://unitedcor.org/detroit/page/home/ Detroit Area Coalition of Reason (Detroit CoR)]
[http://omahacor.org/ Omaha Coalition of Reason (OmahaCoR)]
[http://reasonutah.org/ Utah Coalition of Reason]

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

skeptic-organizations-in-the-united-states secularist-organizations organizations-based-in-washington,-d.c.

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about United Coalition of Reason — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report