SALT LAKE CITY — An outside organization has requested that coaches associated with the University of Utah football team stop offering religious classes for football players, according to a letter mailed to the university's president.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State sent a letter to university Pres. David Pershing Monday requesting that graduate assistant and former NFL player Sione Pouha and Utah safeties coach Morgan Scalley stop teaching an LDS Institute class meant for players on the football team.
"The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bars public-university employees from teaching religious classes to university students," the letter states.