I will presume the LDS posters are not advocating some form of "entire santification" doctrine, by which some marginal groups believe that certain people reach a level of santification in this life so that they not subject to the temptations of sin, transgressions etc. You do believe that prophets, apostles and bishops remain capable of sinning and disobeying God like the rest of us. That they can fall away and even give wrongful commands at times.
It is rather your saying that even if they give a wrong command then God will honour you obedience to that command, despite its being wrong.
However God declares he is the author of no sin, so how could he instruct one of his servant to instruct someone to sin. Therefore any command which causes you to violate your own conscience and according to Rom 14 something that violates a persons consience is a sin for that person, IMHO shouldn't be followed.
That doesn't mean defiance but humble willingness to standard by your own conscience and be willing to cheerfully receive the rightful response of the person in spiritual authority over you, even if that be punishment for your stand.
I quite like John Ralston Sual on this...
"Immorality is doing wrong of our own volition. Amorality is doing it because a structure or an organization expects us to do it. Amorality is worse than immorality because it involves denying our responsbility and therefore our existence as anything more than an animal"
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