(AgapePress) - A pro-family attorney says a Michigan school has violated the constitutional rights of two students by barring them from wearing shirts with a pro-life message.

The two students at Houghton Lake High School wore shirts with pro-life messages, such as "Abortion is Mean," and "Abortion is Homicide." The school’s principal told them they could not wear the shirts, because it might offend someone.

Attorney Ed White with the Thomas More Law Center says this is yet another example of a school silencing a student’s pro-life expression.

"At the same school, kids walk around with other shirts that advertise all different types of clothing companies, sports teams, Playboy Bunny symbols," he says. "One kid even has a shirt with the pictures – no nudity – with photographs of Playboy models on it. So those students are allowed to express their messages, but these pro-life students are not."

White says the school has a double standard when it comes to its dress code. "This is one of many, many cases we have had during this past year where it’s always if you have a pro-life expression on your shirt, that is met with disapproval by the administration," he says. But other messages – and it can be everything as sensitive as a Playboy model or ‘Grab her booty and pinch,’ which one kid has [on his shirt] – and its okay."

In the letter to the school, White explained that students have a clearly established constitutional right to wear pro-life clothing, and that the principal has no right to stop it just because the message is not politically correct.

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