The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is making waves with his new and very controversial book “America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.” The book has been banned in two southern Mississippi County libraries due to the satirical textbook’s nude depiction of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.

According to Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties, “I’ve been a librarian for forty years and this is the only book I’ve objected to so strongly that I wouldn’t allow it to circulate.”

He went on to say, “We’re not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public. If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we’d have the book.”

Wal-Mart has decided against stocking the book because of the page, which features the faces of the nine Supreme Court justices superimposed over naked bodies. The facing page has cutouts of the justices’ robes, complete with a caption asking readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”

The book by Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show, the Comedy Central phony news program he hosts, was released in September 2004. It has spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover non-fiction, and was named ‘Book of the Year’ by Publishers Weekly, the industry trade magazine.

Former English teacher Tara Skelton of Ocean Springs doesn’t know what the fuss is all about. She believes that the libraries shouldn’t decide what is in poor taste. “It just really seemed kind of silly to me,” she said. “I don’t think the Supreme Court justices have filed any defamation of character or libel suits. It’s humor.”