Reply To: my friend is going off

Of course there’s support for that. Regarding the MO OTD rate, it is well established that it is far far higher than any other Orthodox group. Rabbi Pruzansky of Teaneck, MO himself, famously discussed this a couple of years ago. (See: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/shocking-study-of-modern-orthodox-otd-rate for a discussion of that.)