evil-speaking of the Lord's anointed

Dallin H. Oaks: Criticism is particularly objectionable when it is directed toward Church authorities, general or local.... Evil-speaking of the Lord’s anointed is in a class by itself. It is one thing to depreciate a person who exercises corporate power or even government power. It is quite another thing to criticize or depreciate a person for the performance of an office to which he or she has been called of God. It does not matter that the criticism is true.

(1985 CES Doctrine and Covenants Symposium, pp. 24-25)