Jerry Brown Flouted Gay Marriage Law. Why Not A Kentucky Clerk?

From The Daily Caller:

As is now well-known, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis stopped issuing marriage licenses after the Supreme Court ruled in June that states are required to recognize same-sex nuptials. But the fury aimed at Davis has been disproportionate to the actual facts of the situation, and shows galling – and revealing – inconsistency on the part of her critics.

In particular, where was the outcry when Attorney General and later Governor of California, Jerry Brown, refused to mount a defense of gay-marriage ban Proposition 8? Representing the state in court was at the center of his job. Yet he put his personal preferences – some influenced by his liberal version of Catholicism – ahead of the clear dictates of his state’s voters, who had been forced to use the initiative process when politicians failed them.

The Washington Post underscored this double standard today (surely by accident) in its editorial lambasting Davis’s stance.

“… an essential principle on which government depends. Soldiers must fight wars they may disapprove of. Lawyers who choose to work at the Justice Department must apply and defend laws they wish had not been enacted.”

I wonder if The Washington (Com)Post's Editorial Board had the same stand when Jerry Brown, ignored his elected duties?

If you make a fuss that clerks have to perform duties they abhor, you should certainly expect Justice Department officials to defend laws they oppose. Yet the Post never criticized Brown for his inaction on Proposition 8, and in fact repeatedly editorialized for the initiative to be struck down.

I'm sure no one is shocked by this revelation.