The Pennsylvania Council of Churches has endorsed legislation (yet to be introduced in the General Assembly) to ban the use of trap-released or tethered animals for targets, which includes banning pigeon shoots in PA.
The Rev. Sandra L. Strauss, the council's director of public advocacy, said the support is based on honoring the integrity of all creation; however, the measure is not a priority issue for the council. Other policy issues surrounding health care, education, housing and hunger are higher on the list. For example, Strauss's group is urging Methodists to call U.S. Sens. Casey and Specter by Thursday and ask that they restore $4 billion in funding to part of the federal budget that supports global poverty reduction.
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