CHICAGO, April 25 (UPI) -- An Illinois school district must suspend its ban on anti-gay T-shirts following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals.
The court reversed a lower court ruling and decided that Neuqua Valley sophomore Alex Nuxoll was free to wear his "Be Happy, Not Gay" T-shirt to the Naperville, Ill., high school, The Daily Heights newspaper in Arlington Heights, Ill., reported Friday.
Nuxoll and another student filed suit in March of last year charging Indian Prairie Unit District 204 violated their right to free speech by prohibiting them from wearing anti-gay T-shirts to school.
Other students at the Naperville school were permitted to wear shirts with messages supporting homosexual behavior.
The two students said they believed homosexuality was immoral.
"Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their beliefs," said attorney Nate Kellum of the Alliance Defense Fund, which represented the two.
