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Organizers of the anti-government protests on Tuesday filed a petition with the Supreme Court, demanding that the protesters be allowed to hold a demonstration in the village of Neve Ativ, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vacationing with his wife Sara. The petition follows a decision by Israel Police to place barriers around the moshav and not allow civilians who do not live and are not vacationing in the village to arrive and protest there. "The police are preventing the protesters from utilizing their basic right of freedom of expression and protest, in a way which is absolutely not...

PORTLAND (ChurchMilitant.com) - The man who fined an Oregon Christian bakery $135,000 for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple has lost his run for public office, losing to his Republican opponent. It's the first time a Republican has won a statewide office in Oregon since 2002. Brad Avakian's rise to national prominence began when a lesbian couple filed a complaint to the Oregon Department of Justice back in 2013 when Aaron and Melissa Klein, Christian owners of Sweet Cakes bakery, declined to make a cake for a gay wedding. Brad Avakian, then Commissioner of Oregon Bureau...