I don't see a lot of difference between you post and the Wedge Issue document. I'm not in favor of destroying people's careers over their beliefs. You have a point there.
But that point cuts both ways. Schools and government have always been PC. What changes from era to era is who has the power to define correctness.
The issue being argued on these threads is not who gets jobs, but how science is defined. That really hasn't changed in 200 years. Science is always empirical, always follows evidence, always searches for the naturalistic explanation. It's not political correctness; it's just what science is and does. Scientific theories are never going to be replaced by assumptions of supernatural intervention and design.
The ID movement is dead, not because it is wrong -- I can't prove it is wrong, and have no interest in trying. It is dead because it has no research program. It has no testable hypotheses. The concepts of irreducible complexity lead to no research proposals, except ones that promise to find functional subcomponents. You cannot have a healthy, living intellectual community based on fear of finding that things have natural explanations.