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"So Christians should be excluded from tenured public university positions?"

No, not in general. But if a person, in the scholarly writings they put down on their CV/resume, includes publications which argue for unphysical or supernatural explanations for natural phenomena, or, say, a literalist interpretation of creation myths such as those in Genesis, as an explanation for the natural world we find around us, they would clearly be unqualified for tenured positions in departments such as geology, astronomy, biology, etc. The department would face losing accreditation for their program, for one thing. The students seeking legitimate teaching in their chosen field would not put up with it, for another. (Complaint from student to Dean: "I want to get into a grad school and specialize in quasars that are 12 billion years old, but my senior thesis advisor is telling me nothing is more than 6000 years old." No Dean is going to put himself in that position.) They may well be qualified for a tenured position in a religion department at a Bible college, I wouldn't know.

A lot of departments have been imploding for decades due to political influences. Literature and other humanities, for instance, which are collapsing under things like postmodernism, critical theory, all manner of politically driven race/class/gender theories. Departments of literature discarded their scholarly standards and embraced their "critics," and look what happened, they turned into laughingstocks of nonsense. Nobody in the sciences wants to see that happen by letting in politically motivated "critics" of science. Which the Discovery Institute clearly is.