The article is well crafted, but it is pretty much the usual conservative mantry -- freedoms guaranteed to all individuals by the US Bill of Rights (and by British common law constitution and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man) are OK only up to a point, meaning that that which does not comport with what conservatives view as cultural bedrock can be manned.
What those documents really mean is that people can do whatever they damn well please, including those things that "real Americans" might consider culturally offensive and including, as well, those things that could, in the long term, change the cultural bedrock upon which America, or any other society, rests. Fear of Muslims in France and Latinos in the USA is a weapon the conservatives are using to restrict all of our freedoms. If French institutions cannot survive without intimidating women in body-suits at a beach to disrobe, they should be scrapped.
As far as I am concerned, Allison Pearson, the author of the thread starting article, can go put her head between her legs for a bit of self-copulation.