“While the town has not cited specific grounds for the potential restrictions, discussion about it has centred around art with LGBTQ themes.”

Surprise!

Horrible people

The apocalyptic shitstain author that the most bigoted in a crew of council bigots admires has this idea:

…in summary: the Stonewall riots of 1969 which launched the modern gay-rights movement opened the floodgates to another realm, from which ancient pagan deities returned to Earth, including the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, who is resentful at being marginalized for thousands of years and hungry to return the favour against Christianity.

Once again making the LGBTQIA+ world really badass and appealing

The NH state motto is “Live Free or Die”. The motto is even on vehicle license plates. They’re going to have to substantially reduce the font size to get “Live Christofascism or Die” or “Live Far-Right Totalitarianism or Die” to fit on there.

I grew up in a similar small, northern-NE “arts/tourist town” (not in NH), where, generally speaking, part of the learned ethos was that “minding your own business” was a virtue. If this kind of shit ever took hold there the town would be finished - no more tourists = no economy at all. That would of course be great for the down-country wealthy who could then swoop in and buy up land and historic old houses, close to skiing, for pennies on the dollar.

The 1A completely protects displaying art in public. The limit of the town govt’s power here is taking down art it owns (e.g. statues in parks) and refusing to put anything up.