Super, PA has a lot of land owners who consider Sunday in a biblical sense, and who have made it clear they would close their land to hunting if Sunday hunting was instituted, many of these were enrolled in the PGC's public access programs. As a one time PA resident you should know how many Amish, Mennonite, Brethren and other Anabaptist churches there are in the state. Additionally there were a lot of just plain folks who opposed it. There was a large amount of outpouring of public input opposing Sunday hunting each and every time the issue came up. Each time the general assembly was considering it, they held public hearings and at the end of the public hearings the issue died, there were several times this happened. You may not agree with the reasons that people opposed the change but it was legitimate to them and to those who have to stand for re election. The general assembly and the board of commissioners must take into consideration the opinions of everyone, not just hunters when changes are made to hunting laws and regulations. So far as separation of church and state goes, that is not an issue nor can it be used to force the issue since we have Sunday hunting on several species and since the PGC has sole discretion of setting seasons and bag limits and has set Sunday as days to hunt for certain species the days of the week fall under that discretion. That said I did not take a position in Sunday hunting, I used it solely as an example of how public input can and has caused proposed hunting regulations to either pass or be rejected and it is a good analogy, albeit two different issues, the process is the same.