She does have a right to free speech, and I don't think she should be an exception. My only thought though, imagine the uproar if someone wore a shirt that said 'Heterosexual Pride'.
Nah - more like "No one Gets Between Me And My Boyfriend."
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
"She does have a right to free speech, and I don't think she should be an exception."
I disagree. Same-sex attraction disorder is a degrading, destructive, self-destructive mental disorder that manifests as a compulsion to engage in loathsome perversions. Statements denying that fall into the same category as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, and may rightfully and constitutionally be prohibited.
All schools must restrict free speech, free press, free expression of religion, and free assembly, if they didn't chaos would reign.
This is perfectly OK if this were a private school because all the students would be there because of their choice or that of their parents. They would be voluntarily agreeing to suppress these rights.
The problem with compulsory government schools is that many children are not there by choice. Government has set of a system of price-fixed monopoly schools and then when private schools are scarce, they threaten the parents with police action if the child doesn't show up. This isn't "choice".
So...here we have a student with the lesbian tee-shirt. If the government school respects her rights, the school is simultaneously undermining the moral, ethical, and values ( that means religion) of all the other students who must see it.
The government is in an impossible situation because it can not respect the rights of all the students in the school. It can NOT respect the girl's free speech rights and at the same time respect the rights of the another student's right not to be proselytized in a belief system that would destroy their religion.
The student is in an impossible situation because private schools are scarce due to the price-fixed government schools, and homeschooling is impossible due to the taxes the parents must pay to support the lesbian affirming government school.
Government schools are unconstitutional on both the state and federal levels.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter9.htm
Solution: Complete separation of SCHOOL and state.