David Porter is known as a Tea Party-style extremist who is an activist and contributor in anti-choice, anti-marriage equality, and pro-gun right-wing organizations such as the Center for Vision and Values, a think tank out of Evangelical Grove City College. Porter is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Grove City College, a school that does not allow students to accept federal financial aid in order for it to not have to comply with federal anti-discrimination law.
Per its website, the CVV, “seek(s) to create a dynamic learning community to connect, educate and empower people to strengthen the faith and freedom foundation of American citizenship and advance liberty around the world.”
The Center for Vision and Values has published pieces critical of same-sex marriage and birth control and has regularly hosted anti-LGBTQ activists at its annual conference.
In 2010, the CVV won a Templeton Freedom Award from the Atlas Network.
The Atlas Network is a Washington DC-based non-profit organization that works to support and grow a network of more than 400 think tanks in more than 80 countries promoting individual liberty and free market ideals. Many of the member think tanks of the Atlas Network have supported climate science denial and have campaigned against the separation of church and state.
The announcement for the award goes on to highlight the Center’s events and activities: “The Center conducts annual two-day conferences as well as a monthly evening dessert lecture called Freedom Readers, designed to introduce free market principles to non-economics majors in a relaxing and enjoyable environment. The Center also runs a student fellows program which looks to ‘seed’ the freedom movement with highly talented students.”