It may have been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, but Utah porno fighters want the novel "Fun Home" banned from the English curriculum at the University of Utah.

Thomas Alvord, with the group No More Pornography, told a shocked KSL News: "The issue is exposing people to pornography."

The English Department assigns* the graphic novel in an attempt to expose students to different literary genres. And, "Fun Home" has lots of pictures, so most UofU undergrads can handle it.

"Fun Home," chronicles Alison Bechdel's growing up as a lesbian with a gay father. If that weren't enough to flip out the bluenoses, the novel addresses gender roles and suicide.

English Department chairman Vincent Pecora argues literature should be eye opening:

It's really an obligation to teach this kind of literature. It's new, it's interesting, it's inventive.

Apparently it's inventive in the wrong way for porno fighter Alvord:

They're turning their back and pretending graphics, depiction of oral sex, are not an issue.

No More Pornography last month forced a Gold's Gym near BYU to pull music videos that the group judged to be excessively sweaty.

*Note: Students do not have to read the book, they can do an alternate assignment.