Dallin Oaks stated on October 13, 2009 at BYU-Idaho:

ÒIt is important to note that while this aggressive intimidation in connection with the Proposition 8 election was primarily directed at religious persons and symbols, it was not anti-religious as such. These incidents were expressions of outrage against those who disagreed with the gay-rights position and had prevailed in a public contest. As such, these incidents of Òviolence and intimidationÓ are not so much anti-religious as anti-democratic. In their effect they are like the well-known and widely condemned voter-intimidation of blacks in the South that produced corrective federal civil-rights legislation.Ó

(http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/religious-freedom)

Evil speaking of the LordÕs 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. - Dallin H. Oaks, ÒCriticism,Ó Ensign, Feb. 1987 page 68