Fuller Theological Seminary

== Social issues ==
While Fuller has established policies, the seminary is open to difference in opinion among students and faculty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fuller.edu/about/institutional-reports-and-documents/institutional-commitments/|title=Institutional Commitments|website=fuller.edu|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> The seminary's former president, Mark Labberton, marched in favor of comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/social-affairs/20131118/fuller-seminary-students-staff-march-on-pasadena-city-hall-for-immigration-reform|title=Fuller Seminary students, staff march on Pasadena City Hall for immigration reform|date=18 November 2013|publisher=pasadenastarnews.com|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> Others have expressed support in the Fuller forum for the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement as raising awareness for civil rights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/michael-mcbride-conversation-black-lives-matter-white-churches/|title=A conversation on why Black Lives Matter to White churches|date=30 March 2016|publisher=Fuller Studio|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> In 2015, some faculty at the seminary called on Christians to openly discuss, with respect, issues related to race, gender, sexual orientation, refugees, and immigrants.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fuller.edu/communication/homepage-features/2015/conversations-the-church-needs-to-have-in-2015/|title=Conversations the Church needs to have in 2015|website=fuller.edu|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref>

The student club OneTable is the first [[LGBT|LGBTQ]] group organized within an evangelical seminary.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/13/lgbt-group-finds-acceptance-at-evangelical-college/2514629/|title=LGBT group finds acceptance at evangelical college|website=USA TODAY|access-date=April 27, 2016}}</ref> In 2021, three LGBTQ former Fuller students joined the class-action lawsuit ''Elizabeth Hunter et al. vs. U.S. Department of Education,'' arguing that religious exemptions that allow religious institutions of higher education to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity violate the Constitution.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Foley|first=Ryan|date=March 31, 2021|title=LBGT Christian college students sue to block Title IX religious exemptions|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/lgbt-students-sue-to-block-religious-exemptions-to-title-ix.html|access-date=2021-04-06|website=www.christianpost.com|language=en}}</ref> According to Fuller's Community Standards, the seminary does not discriminate on the basis of [[gender identity]] and "Fuller Theological Seminary also does not discriminate on the basis of [[sexual orientation]]. The seminary does lawfully discriminate on the basis of sexual conduct that violates its biblically based ''Community Standard Statement on Sexual Standards'' ... The seminary believes premarital, extramarital, and homosexual forms of explicit sexual conduct to be inconsistent with the teaching of Scripture."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-17|title=Policy Against Unlawful Discrimination {{!}} Fuller Seminary|url=https://www.fuller.edu/about/mission-and-values/community-standards7/|access-date=2021-10-23|language=en-US}}</ref>