T-Shirts ~ Revised ~

I just read an article about wearing T-shirts with messages on them in schools.

We can, in this country say and have speech on our T-shirts that promotes what we believe, but, we have to be careful of that speech in a public domain.

Can someone wear a T-shirt that says: "Homosexuality is Shameful" or “Straight Pride” in a public school?

The message the first shirt sends is a direct judgement on a group of people. The second shirt could certainly imply that same sentiment, but it could mean many things. It is left up to interpretation, which stirs up a different debate.
Perhaps my set of virtues cloud my realisation of what is occurring; while I identify the language on these T-shirts to be lawful in a private setting, they should not be allowed in a public school. And I understand that virtues should only be applied within contexts which they were formed, but in this case, it was a public school.
Perhaps I’m oversimplifying. I look at some of what the student’s wear and see overt messages of hate. It would be impossible to prevent all messages (coded, covert, hidden or undiscovered) that could send a message of hate, but I think it is possible to discriminate between the blatant messages of hate than, perhaps, the more sophisticated. Not that society should keep its feeler on for what the new “slam” is against sub-groups.

Perhaps it is semantics. Someone says Free Speech, someone else says Hate Speech.

Perhaps I’m confusing rights with ethics.

“What are we left with when we can’t condemn certain behavior that we think is wrong?” said Mr. Crampton, the chief counsel for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, based in Tupelo, Miss.

I think it is absurd for Mr. Crampton make such a claim. My reply to him is that you can, only you may not do it in a public school.