Stephen Graham, the father of a Lone Peak High School student, asked school administrators and the Utah State Office of Education to review the school newspaper after reading student opinion pieces about gay-straight clubs and an article on a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. He believes the articles violate the federal student privacy act and Utah sex education laws.

"Sexuality and sexual matters are an adult topic that should be left for adults to decide when they're discussed," said Graham, who believes the Christian doctrine of sexual faithfulness and sexual purity is under attack in the U.S.

But after a preliminary review, the state office said it doesn't plan to take any action.

"I don't see a glaring violation of the law," said Carol Lear, director of school law and legislation. "It's not our role to tell newspaper advisers at Lone Peak High School what to do unless there was some glaring issue in violation of the law."

Last fall, Graham had approached the high school and asked that an apology be sent to parents and a retraction run in the newspaper about the gay-straight student club opinion pieces. He is a founder of the Standard of Liberty Foundation, which works to promote the public resurgence of religion and traditional sexual morality.

"It's perfectly fine to censor something that's not appropriate," Graham said. "Parents do it all the time and so does the government."

The Alpine district still has questions, but at this point is not planning to take any action, according to Sam Jarman, administrator over Alpine high schools.

"If they determine we've broken the law somehow through what was allowed to be printed, we would definitely want to fix that," he said.

Differences of opinion always exist, he noted.

"Sometimes giving kids the opportunity to write some things may offend someone else and that's just sort of the nature of the news media," Jarman said.

jlyon@sltrib.com