KY High school "feels no love" for "Beloved".

Eastern High Principal, James Sexton, is reported to have ordered senior Advanced Placement English class teachers at the school to remove Toni Morrison's classic novel "Beloved" from the list of required reading. He took the action after about two parents complained that the Pulitzer Prize-winning antebellum slavery novel too graphically depicted bestiality, racism and sex. The teachers were to start over with "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Read an analysis of "Beloved" (which is a true slavery story that took place in Boone County, Kentucky), Hawpe's misplaced piety and what Eastern High students are saying.
Was the Principal practicing censorship or good stewardship?