Center for Renewing America
About
The Center for Renewing America is a religious extremist organization created by Project 2025 architect and current Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought. It aims “to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God” by banning pornography, stripping rights away from transgender Americans, and outlawing abortion in all circumstances.
In their own words
“We came up with an idea on pornography to make it so that the porn companies bear the liability for the underage use,” Vought said, “as opposed to the person who visits the website getting to just certify” that they are of legal age.
Vought called this a “back door starting with the kids” and offered the age verification laws as an example of an “immediate fight leverage point that we can win” that sets up “the next fight.”
“We’d have a national ban on pornography if we could, right?” he added. Vought contributed a chapter to the Project 2025 manifesto, which argues in the foreword that all pornography “should be outlawed” and its producers “imprisoned.”
— Project 2025 Co-Author Caught Admitting the Secret Conservative Plan to Ban Porn (The Intercept)
Model Legislation
Age Verification for Websites Containing Obscene and Indecent Material (January 2025)
To require age-verification by websites containing material harmful to minors (April 2021)
Publications
Primer: School Systems Are Corrupting Children with Pornography (July 2023)
Four Legislative Proposals for States to Protect Children from Online Obscenity (January 2023)
Combating Obscenity on the Internet: A Legal and Legislative Path Forward (December 2022)
Online Age-Verification: Protecting Children and Privacy (March 2022)
What States Can Do to Restrict Children’s Access to Pornography (December 2021)
What Congress Can Do to Restrict Children’s Access to Pornography (December 2021)