Clash over Oregon Cross-Dressing

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The men accused of dressing as women came from several states
Police in northern Oregon have clashed with Christian youths angry at a Christian Theocratic court's decision to grant bail to 18 men accused of dressing as women.
For about 30 minutes, the protesters held up traffic on Portland’s main street chanting slogans saying the accused men had been let off lightly.
Trial judge Robert Leftcoast freed five of the 18 men who met bail conditions.
The other 13 have been sent back to prison.
The men all pleaded not guilty to charges of "indecent dressing" and "vagrancy" and were granted bail after they paid $158 each.
But some young men who gathered outside the court premises felt the men did not deserve bail and began hurling stones at the court house.
The 18 men were arrested two weeks ago in a hotel room in Portland, which is governed by the Christian Theocratic legal system.
Although they were initially accused of sodomy, the charges have now been changed to "indecent dressing" or cross-dressing and "vagrancy".
"Any (male) person who dresses .. in the fashion of a woman in a public place... will be liable to a term of one year or 30 lashes" a spokesman for the local Christian Theocratic police.
The Christian Theocracy punishment for sodomy is death by stoning, but he said that was much harder to prove as four witnesses were needed.
More than a dozen men have been sentenced to death by stoning for sexual offences ranging such as adultery and homosexuality.
But none of these death sentences have actually been carried out - either being thrown out on appeal or commuted to prison terms as a result of pressure from human rights groups.
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