Liberty University, the conservative Christian institution founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, has revoked its recognition of the student Democratic Party club, reports The News & Advance, in Lynchburg, Va. The university had officially recognized the group in October.

The club’s president, Brian Diaz, received an e-mail message last week from the university’s vice president for student affairs, telling him that the club must stop using Liberty’s name and holding or advertising events on its campus, the newspaper reports.

The message said, in part, “The Democratic Party platform is contrary to the mission of Liberty University and to Christian doctrine (supports abortion, federal funding of abortion, advocates repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, promotes the ‘LGBT’ agenda, hate crimes, which include sexual orientation and gender identity, socialism, etc.),” according to the newspaper. The Democratic group at Liberty has expressed opposition to abortion rights and gay marriage.

The campus also has a College Republicans group.

Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that officials at Brigham Young University-Idaho dissolved both its College Democrats and its College Republicans groups. A university spokesman told a local newspaper that the decision had been made to demonstrate the political-neutrality policy of the university, which is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Republican group there was much larger than its Democratic counterpart.

BYU’s main campus, in Provo, Utah, is not disbanding its College Democrats or College Republicans, according to the AP. —Beckie Supiano