A flood has destroyed the Louisiana home of a Christian lobbyist who preached that God sends natural disasters to punish gays, according to the UK Independent newspaper.

Tony Perkins, president of the controversial Christian group Family Research Council, described a deluge of “near biblical proportions” hitting his home.

During a broadcast on Family Research Council radio, Perkins called in from Louisiana to explain that he and his family had escaped his flooded home in a canoe.

“This is a flood, I would have to say, of near biblical proportions,” the Christian lobbyist announced.

Perkins, who had also claimed homosexuality is incompatible with evolution and has likened it to a drug or alcohol addiction. said that he and his family were now living off “God’s provisions,” and had relocated to their RV motor home.

After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005, televangelist Pat Robertson suggested that God was punishing the country for legalised abortion and Megachurch Pastor John Haggee declared that God had sent the floods to stop a Gay Pride parade.