Every once is a while, we will get criticized for supposedly paying too much attention to the AFA’s Bryan Fischer, with people accusing us of giving him the attention that he craves and suggesting that we’d be better off just ignoring him.

Believe us, we’d love nothing more than to be able to ignore Fischer’s daily litany of idiotically bigoted ravings … but we can’t do that as long as leading Republican candidates keep appearing on his program, as Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin did just today where they rejoiced in the fact that “freedom seems to be on the march again”: