The Chambers’ daughter, who attends middle school, was not asked to stop wearing her shirt.Įlliot e-mailed the Web site where he bought the shirt and told the site what had happened. “I said, ‘If you've got a homosexual that will violently attack our son, why don't you discipline those kids when it happens?’” Chambers said. Lana Chambers said Babbitt told her that her son's shirt “might incite violence” by provoking a homosexual student to attack Elliot. The next day, Elliot was called into the office of Dana Babbitt, the principal, and told not to wear the shirt anymore. But the third time Elliot, 16, wore his to Woodbury High School, a few students complained that the shirt was offensive. The Chambers children wore their shirts to school twice without incident. Elliot's mother Lana said the shirts were meant to promote “not just the heterosexual lifestyle, but Christian abstinence before marriage.” They certainly weren't meant to spark a lawsuit. The shirts, which they had bought from an Internet vendor, read, “Straight Pride,” with restroom-style outlines of a man and a woman holding hands. Elliot Chambers and his sister thought their new shirts were “cool.”
