Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena recently fired an employee for rejecting the institution's biblical stance on LGBTQ+ issues.
Anabel MunozFuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena recently fired an employee for rejecting the institution's biblical stance on LGBTQ+ issues.Ruth Schmidt said it's been a couple of months since she was fired from her position as a senior director at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
Schmidt, a queer pastor, was raised in a conservative church in Kansas City. Her faith journey led her to Fuller to examine theological questions, including the role of women as leaders and queer communities. Schmidt describes a conflicting experience in which some students and staff are queer-affirming or part of the queer community, while the seminary's community standards are not.
"We were still coming out of the pandemic," she added. "I needed a job, and so I wrestled with it for a long time because my integrity was just like, 'Alert! You cannot sign this.'""I said, 'I will sign the community standards if you let me also sign this legal rider that says I have religious freedom as well,'" she said.
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