Glenn Reynolds (perhaps tongue in cheek) makes a good point:
But I think there is an important distinction to be made. Hostility towards Mormons (or evangelicals, or muslims, or Texans for that matter) is less like racism - which of course is hostility to an immutable trait than 'homophobia' which is hostility to a set of behaviors. Some people don't like the gay lifestyle and behavior patterns so it is said that they are 'homophibic' (stupid misuse of the English language, yes, but that's what they say). Some people don't like the Muslim or Mormon lifestyle so likewise. But it is essential that we be able to (here's that word) discriminate between different behaviors without being held morally or legally liable. This is why charges of 'Islamophobia' or 'homophobia' don't have the same moral and should not have the same legal standing as anti-black or Asian hostility.
Christians have a phrase for this: "Hate the sin, not the sinner".
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