Who gives a crap what the DUmp or Kossacks think about us? People of that ilk despise us for simply existing.
FR isn’t an evangelism site.
It is a God-Fearing, Conservative home for all.
They will hate and despise us anyway, but there are also undecided people - quite many of them, actually. Being associated with YECreationism hurts our credibility among those centrist/undecided segment. Imagine that 'creation science' gains some real traction, and without proper debunking create the impression of representing the entire conservatism. Then imagine that I want to talk to students about junk science used to support the global warming scare strategy. "What? This is coming from the guy who believes that Noah abandoned dinosaurs, and that's why they have gone extinct?"