So much here to think about.   I'd like to highlight something near the end of the article: 

Fr. Reese ends the article noting that this particular issue seems to fall through the cracks when various advocacy groups look past their agreements and focus on their disagreements. THAT, IMHO, may well be the problem of the day in our society.  If one is a conservative, liberal, libertarian, Catholic, Black, Muslim, Jew, millennial or boomer, that's all we need to know about that person.  We stop there, discussion over.  The end result, we ALL tend to be fed a steady diet of fear.  No wonder so many in the Western world fear Islam.  With all this fear OF Islam, that same fear stokes liberals who fear rights will be pulled back instead of expanded, fueling conservatives who fear that liberals are giving away or spending our future, fueling even more fear that begets more fear....

These problems are VERY real.  I think Fr. Reese has it right.  The fix is to focus ad develop what we agree on.