"Researcher" was not called out for his religion but for mixing religion into science.
How did he mix religion into science? There was no mention of religion in the paper that was published. And the paper got through peer review.
But because the paper dealt with intelligent design, there was this firestorm of protest both to the paper that published it and to the smithsonian about any researchers who had provided information to Steven Meyer.
He was questioning Darwin, and was censured for it. He has two PhD's in evolutionary biology, but he was 'called out' because he questioned Darwinian theory, and the powers that be shut him down.
It speaks volumes about the religious fervor and desire to censor differences of opinion of the evolutionists at the Smithsonian.