There is no accounting for taste.
I have a statue of St. Joseph in my garden. I nestled it in the hedge, similar to how the French sometimes do in their formal gardens. The Japanese also fit sculpture or lanterns into the landscape so they blend in with the garden. My St. Joseph is a baroque stone carving, on a patinated concrete column. It is rather good devotional art - but not perfect - in fact, in the photo he looks kid of ugly.
I followed a thread on Spirit Daily about a couple who were asked to remove their statue of St. Francis from the common area of the condo they live in. Garden ornaments such as bird-feeders, birdbaths, and religious statuary are banned in the by-laws from common areas. I think that is reasonable. Most condos are like that, they wouldn’t allow pink flamingos either.
Reverse persecution - when you make us look at your bad art.
I doubt if the motivation is anti-religious, I think it is more likely a matter of aesthetic sensibilities, in an effort to preserve the integrity of the architecture and natural landscape of the complex. This is reasonable, given the variety of people’s taste in art and decor.
I worked in a Church Goods store that sold some pretty hideous religious garden ”sculpture”. One best seller series is manufactured by Space Age Plastics. The statues need to be filled with sand and are garishly painted in bright colors. Other companies produce concrete and resin statuary, which can be passable, yet are often sentimental and cute imitations of classical sculpture. Then of course there are those bathtub Virgins that every non-Catholic loves to make fun of.
Religious Disneyland.
It is bad art and it is usually displayed badly. Little plastic statues placed directly on the ground, with usually no elevation or design sense in the placement. It’s ugly. I know it expresses people’s devotion and that is nice, it’s still ugly.
In the northern suburbs of Minneapolis there is a large parish which has a private cemetery. The last time I was there people had placed innumerable ugly outdoor statues and religious artifacts, along with plastic floral arrangements on the graves of their loved ones. In addition, over the years several large stone statues have been placed around the park. It’s a mess - it looks like a carnival. Devotion is not always a guarantee of good art, design or taste.
I wonder how many Catholics who complain of modern church architecture and ugly tabernacles actually have plastic sand-filled devotional statues in their front yards?
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