No, they didn't just pull the money from somewhere else to pick those hateful sexist anti-choice cherries. They cancelled.
Seems the cherry festival is some kind of Catholic thing, and presumably that's why this is an insurmountable problem for them or whatever.
You're right that there's nothing wrong with those cherries, and no reason why the organizers couldn't say that a cherry festival wasn't going to oppose anyone's rights. Evidently it was more important to them to pretend they were being asked something they aren't.
Rogal interprets the attestation differently. Regardless of whether the government says the attestation is about a group’s actions rather than its beliefs, checking it is in effect a statement of belief, he said.
If he wants to make stuff up, that's his right I guess. But let's not pretend that just because he believes a wrong thing that it must therefore be a right thing. If I want to believe that my bank PIN number is "the number of the beast", that's my problem, isn't it?