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LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
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Elmer Fudd
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Date: February 04, 2014 07:43AM
LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Sunday no Funday if Virginia Senate joins House in hunting change.
http://fairfaxcity.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/let-us-prey-virginia-hunters-pushing-god-to-the-side_247b64a8-fairfaxcity
A fight in the Virginia legislature is focused on a narrow issue raising the broadest of questions: What's the meaning of Sunday?
At issue is a bill passed this week by the House of Delegates that would end the longtime ban against hunting in Virginia on Sundays, a long-fought issue that this year appears will finally go against preachers and Bambi and for hunters and hoteliers who say the ban is an archaic throwback to Christian-led politics and is hurting tourism.
A long-standing Virginia law declares Sunday "a rest day for all species of wild bird and wild animal life..." (The law excludes those dastardly night-owl raccoons, which need to keep their guard up until 2 a.m. on Sundays.)
"We're pushing God to the side," Thomas C. Wright, a Republican delegate from Lunenburg, told The Washington Post. "Now Sundays are like almost any other day of the week...The more we chip away at Sunday being the Lord's Day, the worse it is for our country.
The Virginia Senate has voted to lift the ban in the past and will likely vote to do so again, making hunting as OK on Sunday as football and buying beer.
"Imagine if we were to ban NASCAR on Sunday," Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter told the paper. "Imagine if we were to say, 'Whoops, no golf!'
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Sunday no Funday if Virginia Senate joins House in hunting change.
http://fairfaxcity.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/let-us-prey-virginia-hunters-pushing-god-to-the-side_247b64a8-fairfaxcity
A fight in the Virginia legislature is focused on a narrow issue raising the broadest of questions: What's the meaning of Sunday?
At issue is a bill passed this week by the House of Delegates that would end the longtime ban against hunting in Virginia on Sundays, a long-fought issue that this year appears will finally go against preachers and Bambi and for hunters and hoteliers who say the ban is an archaic throwback to Christian-led politics and is hurting tourism.
A long-standing Virginia law declares Sunday "a rest day for all species of wild bird and wild animal life..." (The law excludes those dastardly night-owl raccoons, which need to keep their guard up until 2 a.m. on Sundays.)
"We're pushing God to the side," Thomas C. Wright, a Republican delegate from Lunenburg, told The Washington Post. "Now Sundays are like almost any other day of the week...The more we chip away at Sunday being the Lord's Day, the worse it is for our country.
The Virginia Senate has voted to lift the ban in the past and will likely vote to do so again, making hunting as OK on Sunday as football and buying beer.
"Imagine if we were to ban NASCAR on Sunday," Del. L. Scott Lingamfelter told the paper. "Imagine if we were to say, 'Whoops, no golf!'
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VA hunters come join us over at www.reddit.com/r/VAHUNTING
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/r/VAhunting
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Date: February 24, 2014 10:00AM
VA hunters come join us over at www.reddit.com/r/VAHUNTING !
Re: LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Posted by:
hmmmm?
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Date: February 24, 2014 12:04PM
I wonder why someone needs to bring god into it...
If in fact there is a day that animals need to "rest", why not just say that?
If you're gonna bring god into it, doesn't EVERYTHING needs to be shut down on Sunday?
Unless somebody is worried about a deer and his family not going to church on cus they're worried about getting shot up?
If in fact there is a day that animals need to "rest", why not just say that?
If you're gonna bring god into it, doesn't EVERYTHING needs to be shut down on Sunday?
Unless somebody is worried about a deer and his family not going to church on cus they're worried about getting shot up?
Re: LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Posted by:
thisisajokeright
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Date: February 24, 2014 12:17PM
see my username.
Re: LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Posted by:
leeharvey
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Date: February 24, 2014 12:41PM
I hunt from the church steeple. A great hunting stand!
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Re: LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Posted by:
thisisajokeright
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Date: February 24, 2014 01:03PM
This story is so backwards -- chances are if there's an NRA sticker on the bumper, there's a jesus sticker in close proximity.
Re: LET US PREY: Virginia Hunters 'Pushing God to the Side'
Posted by:
you must believe
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Date: February 24, 2014 01:44PM
thisisajokeright Wrote:
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> see my username.
Probably not, and is it as bad as some states, including NC, having some type of prohibition or something or other in their constitution against an atheist holding public office?
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> see my username.
Probably not, and is it as bad as some states, including NC, having some type of prohibition or something or other in their constitution against an atheist holding public office?