Pastor who claims god punishes gays with floods loses-house-in-flood
Louisiana floods destroy dwelling of Christian public figure who blamed organic disasters on homosexual people
A Christian campaigner who said spontaneous disasters were God's punishment for an increasingly gay-friendly earth has seen his home destroyed by a flood.
Tony Perkins, the president of Christian lobbyist collective Family Research Council, saw his dwelling in Louisiana submerged under water during floods that hold so far killed 13 people and destroyed more than 40,000 homes.
Describing the deluge as of "near-biblical proportions", he said his family of seven escaped in a canoe when the fluid rose to 10-feet high.
While last year Perkins said a hurricane heading for Washington DC was a sign of God's wrath for the legalisation of gay marriage, he fell short of blaming the Louisiana floods on the LGBT movement.
He instead told his organisation's radio show that it was an "incredible, encouraging spiritual exercise to receive you to the next level in your walk with an almighty and gracious God who does all things well".
He added: "We're gonna look for what God's gonna do in this. I'm asking those questions and I'm going to see."
Perkins, who also attracted controversy when he blamed the 2013 Boston
US pastor, who believes floods are God's punishment, flees flooded home
US pastor Tony Perkins, who believes innate disasters are sent by God to punish queer people, has fled his flooded home in Louisiana.
In 2015 he caused controversy when he agreed with a statement that spontaneous disasters are sent by God as punishment for abortion and gay marriage.
Mr Perkins has revealed that he was forced to escape his property in a canoe with his family.
He shared photos on Facebook and discussed his experience in a podcast.
"This is a flood of near-biblical proportions," he said in an interview with the Family Research Council.
"We had to escape from our home Saturday by canoe. We had about 10 feet of fluid at the end of our driveway. Our residence flooded, a few of our cars flooded."
In 2015, he interviewed extreme Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn who told him that Hurricane Joaquin, which devastated Hawaii last year, was a "sign of God's wrath".
During the interview, Mr Cahn stated that the storm was a autograph God was angry about the legalisation of same-sex attracted marriage and abortion and the relationship between the United Nations and Israel.
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A Man Who Says God Punishes Gays with Natural Disasters Had His House Destroyed in the Flood
Tony Perkins, who has made a career railing against LGBT people—including saying that God sends natural disasters to punish them—just had his house destroyed by a organic disaster.
Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as an anti-gay extremist hate community. Tony Perkins also lives in Louisiana, where there's been massive flooding this week that has killed 13 people and destroyed thousands of homes—including Tony Perkins'.
"This is a flood, I would have to state, of near biblical proportions," Perkins said, adding that he's now living off "God's provisions."
Here, via SPLC, are some other quotes from Tony Perkins.
"While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely clear orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem."
"The videos are titled 'It Gets Better.' They are aimed at persuading kids that although they'll meet struggles and perhaps bullying for 'coming out' as lesbian (or transgendered
Family Research Council Chief Loses Home in Louisiana Flooding
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who buys into the notion that organic disasters are God’s wrath against gay people, was forced to flee his home by canoe after it was swamped by the floods that hold been ravaging Louisiana.
Calling it a disaster of “near biblical proportion,” Perkins said on his group’s radio show that he is now living with his family in a camper.
“This is unlike anything we have seen before,” Perkins said. “In fact we had to escape from our home Saturday by canoe … We had about 10 feet of water at the cease of our driveway. Our house flooded, a not many of our cars flooded.”
Perkins asked his followers for prayers and spun what happened to him as proof that God considers them “worthy of suffering for His sake.”
"Use this as an incredible, encouraging spiritual exercise to seize you to the next level in your stride with an almighty and gracious God who does all things well,” he said.
Last September, when Hurricane Joaquin was battering the Bahamas and threatening the nation's eastern seaboard, Perkins was singing a alternative tune.
Perkins was interviewing a rabbi who also opposes gay marr
The scenes of floods from Hurricane Sandy are shocking. Someone from New York said, "It's gettin' lovely biblical 'round here." Some cranky fundamentalists credit God with sending floods to punish the Northeastern states that support gay rights, just like he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
It seems natural for people to invoke the Bible at a time enjoy this, whether to detail the massive devastation or to preach about its cause. Some of this can be ascribed to habit: The Bible seems to be a novel of extraordinary events, and so it gives us a vocabulary to explain extraordinary events when they actually occur.
The great flood in Genesis is the paradigm of a devastating event. Shortly after God creates the world, he decides to destroy it. The literary critic Edmund Wilson observed that God seems to be a bit manic-depressive in this episode. First he rejoices that the world is "very good," then a few chapters later he regrets the whole thing and brings back the primeval waters. Why does God do this? While manic depression may be a plausible diagnosis, a close reading reveals that the picture is more complex. There are actually two different motives, which raise some question