It seems to me that there are two types of hypocrisy, the way we use the terms:
1) the kind born of weakness or lack of self-knowledge where you know the standard is correct, but you struggle/fail to live up to it yourself. ("Or how can you say to your brother, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.")
2) The kind where you are indifferent to the standard, but you impose it on other people for the sake of your social standing. ("The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. hey do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men.")
Seems like people are interpreting it in the second category if they want him to resign. But it also just may have been a moment of weakness where he was going-along-to-get-along because that is what everyone was doing.
