Brad Hoey, a university spokesman, said the student center removed the Bibles immediately, even though they had been in the rooms for a number of years.

Chicago Tribune reports.

Northern Illinois University removes Bibles from campus hotel after complaint

Guests seeking a Bible at Northern Illinois University’s campus hotel now must call the front desk after a secular group complained that the sacred scripture had no place in the nightstand.

Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, discovered a Bible in a drawer last month during a stay on the DeKalb campus where she had been invited to speak by the Secular Student Alliance. Upon her return home, the foundation’s lawyer wrote a letter to the Holmes Student Center director requesting the books be removed.

“It sends a message of endorsement — ‘We think it’s so important you can’t possibly go to sleep at night without your Christian Bible in your bedside table’,” Gaylor said. “It’s proselytizing in the privacy of a room you probably paid a lot of money for. It’s bad manners.”