Tony Perkins said he had to escape his house in a canoe

With several people dead and thousands homeless, there’s very little good news coming out of Louisiana at the moment.

There are lots of heroic acts, of course, and people pulling together to help one another, but generally the scene is pretty grim.

However, there is a glimmer of rainbow-filled sunshine after a hate group leader had to flee his flooded home in a canoe.

Tony Perkins is the leader of Family Research Council and he once claimed that God sends natural disasters.


So it’s a bit of a bitter twist of irony that what he described as flooding of ‘biblical proportion’ had left him facing six months living in a camper.

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Floods have devastated huge parts of Louisiana (Picture: AP)