charlie: To quote several major Rabbonim, in two to three generations they won’t be following any Halachah at all. If that turns out not to be true, they’ll probably be more or less accepted-but-not-really-spoken-about in the rest of the Frum world. (Kinda like the average “Modern Orthodox” person’s relationship with the super-right-wing Yeshivish world. For all people like Joseph and others talk about how YU and MO is treif and whatnot, Yeshivish people still trust their Kashrus and count them for a minyan and stuff.) I don’t expect them to stay Frum, much like the conservative movement went. If they prove it’s possible, though, then maybe they will need to be accepted. (This is all assuming that things like academic Bible and Talmud like most OO are more into don’t lead to there being wholesale denial of Ikkarei Emunah. If that happens, it doesn’t matter how many Halachos they keep or how well they do them.)
DY: What do you think of the paragraph I just wrote?