Couples lug AR-15 assault rifles to Pennsylvania church blessing

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NEWFOUNDLAND, Pa. (Reuters) – Hundreds of couples toting AR-15 rifles packaged a Unification church in Pennsylvania on Wednesday to have their marriages sanctified and their weapons distinguished as “rods of iron” that could have saved lives in a new Florida propagandize shooting.

Women dressed in white and group in dim suits gripped a guns, that they had been urged to move unloaded to a church in a farming Pocono Mountains, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Philadelphia. Many celebrants wore crowns – some finished of bullets – while church officials dressed in issuing splendid pinkish and white panoply to go with their armaments.

Reverend Hyung Jin “Sean” Moon, personality of a church after a genocide of his father and church founder, a Reverend Sun Myung Moon, sanctified a roughly 250 couples during a service, a church orator said.

The Feb. 28 matrimony blessing rite had been designed prolonged before a male with an AR-15 assault-style purloin massacred 17 students and propagandize staff in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, a orator said.

Students from an facile propagandize nearby a church were relocated for a day to stretch them from a gun-toting couples during a ceremony, according to a Wallenpaupack School District website.

Moon pronounced in a matter that a staff of a Florida propagandize should have been armed, an choice President Donald Trump has pronounced should be explored national and that clergyman unions have criticized.

“Each of us is called to use a energy of a ‘rod of iron’ not to arm or annoy as has been finished in eerie kingdoms of this world, though to strengthen God’s children,” he said, citing a Book of Revelation in a Bible.

“If a football manager who rushed into a building to urge students from a shooter with his possess physique had been authorised to lift a firearm, many lives, including his own, could have been saved,” Moon’s matter said.

The Pennsylvania propagandize district 3 years ago called off classes during a large manhunt for survivalist Eric Frein, who military pronounced used an AK-47-style arms to waylay a Pennsylvania state guard fort and afterwards fled into a mountains.

Frein was found guilty in Apr of murdering a Pennsylvania state guard and wounding another in a Sep 2014 attack.

Reporting by Eduardo Munoz; Editing by Barbara Goldberg, Bill Trott and Lisa Shumaker

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