&gt;I could choose to indulge my fabulous side and cross dress<p>Well, personally, I would say you are born with a fabulous side so you are just being true to yourself.  Congrats and have fun!<p>&gt; Yes, choices do have consequences, but social exclusion based on those choices can still be critiqued.<p>The problem is you are making a choice not only to believe in something completely void of fact (you can be ignorant if you want to be I guess) but you are also making a choice that HARMS society as a whole.  When a person&#x27;s choice guides them to discriminate a whole group of people based on some stories written a few thousands of years ago thats a choice that deserves to be critiqued.  If your choice guides the people you vote for to be anti-science yeah, that choice deserves to be ridiculed.