The school's “Community Lifestyle Commitment" statement has in past times been cited as reason for terminating the employment of faculty and staff members who are sexually active gay men or lesbians. Defending the termination of two gay faculty members as recently as 2004, then-President Loren Swartzendruber stated that the university's and Mennonite Church USA's policy was that "sexual relationships are reserved for a man and a woman in marriage" and applied equally to faculty members who are heterosexual. He noted that two heterosexual employees had also been let go after having extramarital sexual relationships.