2019 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 145
BY SENATOR MILKOVICH
A RESOLUTION
To commend Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, on his continued
commitment to emphasizing Christian family values throughout the country and
increasing the influence of the organization on decisions made by Congress.
WHEREAS, Tony Perkins, a native of Cleveland, Oklahoma, began his political
career in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1996 and has since been described by
many as a legislative pioneer; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Perkins has established himself as an innovative pro-life and pro-
family policy and political leader, stemming in part from his passage of the covenant
marriage law in Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, Tony Perkins' current activity in the legislative arena is not as an elected
official, but as the president of the Family Research Council (FRC) with the consistent pro-
life and pro-family beliefs and agenda; and
WHEREAS, the FRC was established in 1983, as a Christian public policy ministry
in Washington, D.C., with a stated credo of advancing pastoral voices for faith and family,
and Tony Perkins is their fourth president, beginning his term with the organization on
September 1, 2003; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Perkins' views of the family have remained steadfast from his
earliest days at the Louisiana Legislature and the principles of the covenant marriage law,
believing in the sanctity of marriage and the traditional view of the roles of wife and
husband; and
WHEREAS, Tony Perkins' position on marriage as a sacred vow before God clashes
head-on with the more liberal views that any two people can be married, including those of
the same sex; and
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WHEREAS, Mr. Perkins continues to preach a consistent message and urged the
FRC to involve pastors in what Perkins and the FRC believe to be an assault on the sanctity
of marriage between a man and a woman; and
WHEREAS, it is Tony Perkins' firm conviction that campaigns to protect the family
and the church could not succeed without a renewal of cultural engagement among pastors
and the new Church Ministries department of the FRC, guided by Tony Perkins' belief in
social engagement, reaches out to pastors to equip and embolden them; and
WHEREAS, under the leadership of Mr. Perkins, the FRC's government affairs
division is welcomed on Capitol Hill, with support from the Christian right and with
trepidation from foes but with both camps acknowledging the excellence and character of
the people who carry the message; and
WHEREAS, from his earliest days in the political arena in the Louisiana House of
Representatives, Tony Perkins has employed his Christian faith as a guide to his policy
positions in both the elective arena, as an elected official, and in the broader arena of policy-
making; and his faith is uppermost in the policies he champions.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, on his
continued commitment to emphasizing Christian family values throughout the country and
increasing the influence of the organization on decisions made by Congress.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Tony Perkins at the Family Research Center.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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