Students Protest Seattle Pacific University Ban on Hiring LGBTQIA+ Employees

Seattle Pacific University (SPU) is a private Christian university in Seattle, and they are now receiving backlash as students protested after the campus administration voted last week to uphold rules that ban the hiring of LBGTQIA+ staff from working at the university. Last week, the SPU Board of Trustees voted to keep the university’s current employee “lifestyle expectations.” In a statement from the university, they stated; “[faculty and staff at the university must] continue to reflect a traditional view on Biblical marriage and sexuality, as an expression of long-held church teaching and biblical interpretation.”

Many students are protesting this ruling, with SPU’s student body president Laur Lugos stating; “This is not a new fight, this has been an ongoing fight for 30 years.”

Source: NPR