Posted May 14, 2015 12:10 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

The North Carolina House recently voted to repeal a 145 year-old “blue law” that bans some kinds of hunting on private property. If the NC Senate passes the bill as well and it passes into law, the Old North State will join 41 other states where citizens may hunt with firearms on any day of the week that they desire.

Archery hunting and falconry on private lands are both already legal activities in North Carolina on any day of the week.

Rev. Mark Creech,the executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina (CAL), has come out against the legislation in a wistful opinion piece in the Raleigh News & Observer, stating:

…One can argue endlessly the particulars of Sunday observance, whether one can worship in the forest as well as the sanctuary or whether the real Sabbath is Saturday or Sunday. History shows the early church applied the Fourth Commandment, “Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy,” to the first day of the week, Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead and completed the work of man’s redemption and secured the sure hope of our eternal rest.

In places where Christianity has spread, this practice has …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms

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