The ban followed a parental complaint that the book has content unsuitable for children.
A school district in the US state of Utah has removed the Bible from elementary and middle schools for containing "vulgarity and violence".
Most of the books that have been banned so far pertain to topics such as sexual orientation and identity. The committee did not elaborate on its reasoning or which passages contained "vulgarity or violence".
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