Oh yes, they are going to eat their own. Here is the petition web site message.
Republican Presidential Nominee, Senator John McCain:It’s up to 1500 signatures so far. Who’s behind the anti-Mitt movement? Someone named William J. Murray, Chairman of Government Is Not God – PAC. Murray’s turned off comments at the petition site because:We call upon you to reject any consideration of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as a Vice Presidential running mate.
We further urge you to only consider for Vice President an individual with a strong and consistent record of support for both the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, and the amendment of the U.S. Constitution to establish marriage as only between one man and one woman.
Our NO MITT petition site on the Internet gave those who signed the petition an opportunity to give a short personal message to Senator McCain as to why they did not want Mitt Romney as Vice President. Individuals used this opportunity to post hateful and bigoted anti-evangelical messages at the site that I cannot reprint here. At one point a volunteer had to work full time to cull out those messages that were too offensive to leave up. We blocked the server at BYU in Utah and the number of offensive messages declined. In the culling process some messages that were not offensive were removed as well, our volunteers did the best they could with the volume.Is that just delicious? My marriage is a social catastrophe…There was an overall dishonesty by the Romney supporters who posted at the NoMittVP site. In order to leave a post they had signed a petition saying they did not want Mitt Romney as their VP choice. To be blunt, they lied in order to post pro-Romney or anti-evangelical messages.
I was surprised by the number of anti-evangelical messages and the tone of hatred for evangelicals in general. However, this has not changed my position or the position of this political action committee. We will still endorse and fund candidates who are Mormon who are consistent social conservatives. We will still not endorse nor fund Catholics or members of Protestant churches who support such social catastrophes such as abortion and homosexual marriage.
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I like the image of those nasty young mormons from BYU filling the comments with hatefill and obscene screeds against evangelics. No way is that true. I am not a big fan of the church of lds, but I have to say that I cannot think of a group less likely to go all nasty and hateful than a group of young mormons.
I sincerely hope this is the beginning of the end of Reagan’s eleventh commandment.
hmmm…
Pam+Kate= social catastrophe.
Can someone explain this “New Math’ to me? ‘Cause I’m just not getting it ALL.
Ok, can someone explain “natural death” to me?
I know they mean Schiavo, but a surgically installed feeding tube forcing food into her body wasn’t natural. Fundies used to rail against using tubes and wires to keep people alive. How did that change so quickly?
We will still not endorse nor fund Catholics
Shouldn’t Bill Donahue be screaming his head off by now?
I think there was a transcription error. I suspect the following was the intended statement, but the volunteers got a little overzealous with their editing.
These people had an online petition and were surprised when it got trolled to hell and back?
Someone give these people a lesson in the internets.
Caren, perhaps they were hoping for a Cheny/Schiavo ticket in 2008.
“Government Is Not God – PAC”?
If government and God aren’t the same, then why are they so upset that government doesn’t do what they think God says?