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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 224
BY SENATORS MILKOVICH, ALARIO, CORTEZ, FANNIN, GATTI, HEWITT,
LAMBERT, LONG, MARTINY, MILLS, MIZELL, PEACOCK, RISER,
WALSWORTH, WARD AND WHITE
A RESOLUTION
To commend Gene Mills as president of the Louisiana Family Forum.
WHEREAS, the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) is a socially conservative nonprofit
advocacy group based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, the organization supports Louisiana's covenant marriage law and
opposes abortion and same-sex marriage; and
WHEREAS, its stated mission is to persuasively present biblical principles in the
centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, communication, and
networking; and
WHEREAS, LFF maintains a close working relationship with Focus on the Family
and Family Research Council and is part of a network of individual state Family Policy
Councils; and
WHEREAS, Theogene Anthony "Gene" Mills III is president and director of LFF,
which he cofounded in 1998 with Tony Perkins; and
WHEREAS, he is a devoted husband and father, an ordained Pentecostal Assemblies
of God minister, a legislative lobbyist, and a Christian who worked closely with former
governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal from 2008 until 2016 to advance the policies and causes of
LFF; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Mills has cultivated relationships with elected officials and other
figures at the national level with the goal of educating and promoting traditional family
values; and
WHEREAS, he was the driving force behind the Louisiana Science Education Act
in 2008, school vouchers in 2012, and every abortion restriction enacted in Louisiana; and
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WHEREAS, under his direction and leadership, LFF has cosponsored the Louisiana
Life March, been instrumental in reforming the criminal justice system in Louisiana, fought
for parental choice in education, secured forty-five key legislative victories, and awarded
fifty-nine legislators for pro-family votes.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend Gene Mills on his leadership and direction as president of the
Louisiana Family Forum.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Gene Mills.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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