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This week in religion news.

Dead birds not sign of End of Times.

Originalists spontaneously amend the Constitution.

Americans United critical of recommendation to repeal rule prohibiting electioneering by churches.

Trinity Foundation’s Ole Anthony says ECFA lacks “teeth” for enforcement.

Memo notes “very high level of distrust between churches and religious organizations and the government.”

Grassley says “self-correction can be more effective than government action.”

Islamophobic activist shunned by CPAC appointed to advisory board of producer of anti-Islam propoganda films.

Taseer’s assassin shot him multiple times at point blank range in a public market and then waited to be detained, allegedly expressing pride in his actions to the media that quickly surrounded him. It is the issue of blasphemy and the symbolic nature of a much-publicized case involving Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of maligning the Prophet Muhammad, that brought Taseer so centrally into the public eye in recent weeks.