>Chrastka told Motherboard. “The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect that we used to have in America for the separation of church and state and a rise of a political perspective that wants to essentially break government, defund education, approach issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign… this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest of America to wake up.” To these people, keeping a separation of Church and State means that the State is allowed to happily tax church-going citizens to pay for anti-Church propaganda. That's not actually what that means though. Not funding the library was the only way to prevent the State from stealing money from the members of that Church in order to subvert their Church's message. The citizens handled it in the only peaceful means left to them.