Earlier this year, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a law requiring parental permission for students to join school clubs along with lengthy regulations that are intended to allow school districts to ban gay-straight alliances.

PFLAG said it is doing nothing more than advertising a scholarship.

"This was about getting an ad in print in a publication that clearly has an audience who would know who these potential students are, who would be interested in applying for these scholarships," said Jean-Marie Navetta, PFLAG National's communications director. "All children need to be valued. That's exactly what these scholarships do."

When Utah Pride Center Executive Director Valerie Larabee read the letter on the Bountiful High Web site, she was appalled.

The letter was removed from the site by Principal Ryck Astle after a student pointed it out.

"We're there to take care of students," he said. "We're not there to advertise pro or against anything."

Larabee would like to help educate the school and PTA about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students and see the group apologize to the student body for posting the statement online.

"They can have whatever opinion they want, but having that in a public place where students have access to it is completely inappropriate," she said.