SUNDAY HUNTING, BIBLICALLY? - NEITHER COMMANDING NOR FORBIDDING.

"I see no other Biblically supported response to the issue of hunting on a Sunday, neither commanding nor forbidding. God’s commandment to rest (even for beasts of labor) is widely

understood as protection from being forced to work on a day set aside for rest, which further confuses the issue as many describe hunting as recreation not work."

Writes - The Rev. Dr. Nathan Corl Minnich, STS

Read Full Letter - In response to your questions regarding hunting on Sundays

Excerpts: 

"Defining Sabbath is nearly impossible if it is intended to apply to all people, and in this particular case, all Pennsylvanians. For the state, any attempt at defining such a day would violate the separation that must exist for people’s religion and their government in this country."

"...there are legislators arguing that the state must protect Sunday as a Sabbath day, on the issue of hunting. I fear they neither understand the history, meaning, nor significance of Sabbath, and have completely failed to recognize that it is not within the boundaries granted them by their public office to define such a term. If this is the primary reason for restricting hunting activities, then those holding legislative office must seek to protect the Sabbath of all Pennsylvanians per their various definitions; a futile task at best."

"The basis of this argument is distressing to me and begs for more questions which, in my humble

opinion, will further erode the false foundations upon which the legislator’s opinions are formed.

If this Commonwealth seeks to keep sacred a Sabbath day, why are they not arguing against

Sunday sporting events which pull our children away from church activities where their own faith

is being vitally formed? Can this argument be held to only one Sunday activity in Pennsylvania?

How can any elected official seek to argue for one segment of his or her constituency and not for

the faiths of all people by whose election they serve?"