THE REWARD OF A SUNDAY HUNT IN MARYLAND

The reward of a successful Sunday hunt in Maryland.  Fresh backed apple pie and 2 quarts of cherries. 

Story from Thomas Redfern, Legislative Team, Hunters United for Sunday Hunting

Going to try to make a long story short. So this past SUNDAY I drive to Maryland to help an orchard farmer with crop damage.  I end up shooting two doe.  The owner of the orchard is so pleased he pays with two quarts of the absolute sweetest cherries I have ever eaten and a freshly baked apple pie.  This is how farmers and hunters should help each other not whatever the hell the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau is doing to hunting conservation here in Pa. 

The cool thing is the venison stayed at the orchard and is feeding the farmers migrant workers  They are Mexican and I had a great time with them after the hunt as I speak Spanish being that I lived in Mexico for five years. 

This relationship started simply by me looking for a place to hunt on Sunday.  Needless to say, I will be going back...for the pie of course.

Thomas Redfern

 

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?"