The Geological Society of America, which has 27,000 members, told the newspaper it has returned the $800 cost of the job post to BYU.

BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins declined to comment.

The Provo, Utah, university is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and mandates students follow the code that also prohibits premarital sex and the consumption of alcohol among other rules.

The code prohibits “not only sexual relations between members of the same sex, but all forms of physical intimacy that give expression to homosexual feelings.”

As a private school and religious institution, the school can legally maintain the honor code.

Benjamin Abbott, a professor in BYU’s College of Life Sciences, believes dropping the ads limits diversity in religious ideologies.

“It removes an opportunity for a diverse candidate from outside of the BYU system from finding the job,” Abbott said. “If we want to learn from and potentially influence others, we shouldn’t cut them off.”

Ellen Alexander, a doctoral student in geology at UCLA who identifies as LGBTQ, complained on social media after the American Geophysical Union initially declined to take the ad down.

“That ideology does not deserve an equal seat at the table,” Alexander said. “It’s not a belief. It’s discrimination.”

Other national groups have previously faced controversy for collaborating with BYU. The Society for Political Methodology apologized in April 2018 for holding an annual conference at the school. The group said many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender participants declined to take part. As a result, the group relocated several conference events off-campus.