Today, The Hill reports that at a campaign stop in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Mitt Romney was quoted as saying the following:

Mitt Romney weighed in for the first time on the Democratic platform initially removing the word ‘God,” saying that was something he would never do.

Mitt Romney, stumped.

Romney began a campaign appearance in Virginia Beach, Va. on Saturday by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before turning to the platform controversy.

‘That pledge says ‘under God,’ and I will not take God out of our platform,’ Romney said to cheers. ‘I will not take God off our coins, and I will not take God out of my heart.’

Is Mitt Romney still spreading a conspiracy theory from 2007, when e-mail rumors were circulating that “In God We Trust” was to be omitted from new U.S. dollar coins? A theory which Snopes found to be false? New U.S. dollar coins were designed with the motto “In God We Trust” omitted.

Interesting to note that to President Theodore Roosevelt, the inclusion of “In God We Trust” on currency was “sacrilegious” in the year 1907, as reflected in this New York Times article:

ROOSEVELT DROPPED ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’; President Says Such a Motto on Coin Is Irreverence, Close to Sacrilege. NO LAW COMMANDS ITS USE He Trusts Congress Will Not Direct Him to Replace the Exalted Phrase That Invited Constant Levity.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — In answer to one of the numerous protests which have been received at the White House against the new gold coin which have been coined without the words “In God We Trust,” President Roosevelt has written a letter, which he to-day made public. The letter follows:

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Mitt’s really reaching now; this dumb conspiracy theory has been circulating on the far right for years. Here’s loony Pamela Geller pushing it in 2007, in her inimitably incoherent style: BOYCOTT GODLESS DOLLAR!!!

Whenever one of these wingnut conspiracy theories pops up, you’re guaranteed to find it somewhere on Geller’s site - she pushes every single one of them.