Can you give any fresh examples of this? I looked around and the examples cited by intelligent design proponents seem to fall apart after further research. Either the folks never lost jobs or privileges or had long standing valid histories of performance issues unrelated to their beliefs. This began to seem like urban myth, paranoia or histrionics. Regardless, Christians are supposed to rejoice in persecution for their beliefs, even to the point of prison or death, a tad worse than demotion or job search. (see 1 Peter 4:12-13, Acts 5:28-42, etc.)