Gallaudet University’s rash decision to place its chief diversity officer on paid administrative leave because she signed the petition that put Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on the ballot next month is a dismaying example of political correctness run amok. But it also exposes the same kind of intimidation and coercion quietly lurking behind a facade of “fairness” and “toleration” that reared its ugly head in California four years ago over voter-approved Proposition 8.

Maggie Gallagher, a former president of the National Organization for Marriage, zeroed in on this anomaly last week, writing on National Review’s blog: “Nobody that I know is losing his job for being for gay marriage.” Indeed, the shabby treatment of Dr. Angela McCaskill is more proof that the Tolerance Lobby does not tolerate dissent — even among its own card-carrying members.