Dont over look the financial motivations that were behind many Blue Laws. For example why in New England there were laws that prohibited many stores from be open on Sundays? The rational wasn't based on getting people to church in so much as it was getting their money to church, and the less places they had to spend it the more that was available for the collection pans.
We are allowed to hunt on Sundays in PA, only crows and coyotes though. Hopefully someday, big game animals will be included in this. I can go to to the casino and get hammered on Sunday but can't archery hunt!
Now that is about as idiotic as laws can be. I can shoot, kill etc .... but not things I would kill for consumption or to provide food for my family. Dumb... just dumb. I don't eat crows or coyotes and am not about to start.
Fairness, to Sunday Hunting Ban comment reflects how those on different sides of this issue can interpret the fairness issue. Even if hunters did own the woods from October to January, that would mean that non-hunters own the woods from January to October. Plus EVERY Sunday. Non-hunters do outnumber hunters, so maybe they don’t deserve equal treatment, right? Well, that’s the argument that’s been used (and is still used) to justify discrimination against other minorities forever. A fellow blogger was telling me that his cousins wife opposes Sunday hunting because she wants to be able to walk their dogs on a neighbor’s farm where there is hunting. Yet he said she hasn’t walked the dogs up there for two years. Not once. So, while she thinks hunting on Sunday would impact her behavior, it has absolutely no impact on what she is really doing. This has caused such a riff in their household that her constant browbeating the issue has him filing for divorce. And he's a non-hunter.
