My post was not only about kiruv, so much as it was about the mindset and the mentality that inclines a person to look towards exclusion rather than inclusion.
Would I expect that a mechallel shabbos be a shliach tzibur? I expect not; but I wonder how we are not makpid on those who are not glach in dinei mommonus, or those who are r’l treating those who are vulnerable in an abusive way. It doesn’t seem to bother us so much that we exclude them now, does it?
Ah, but you will say, the Debreciner didn’t give me a psak about that, so I have no obligation, necessity, or right to exclude them. I am happy with my blinders. I am happy with my pilpul, though it paints me into a corner.
That is the kind of yiddishkeit I am convinced will ultimately be the shrinking preserve of an increasingly small number of yidden. It is the kind of yiddishkeit that has little hashpo’oh on anyone outside the beis medresh, the kind of yiddishkeit that remembers “v’atem tihyu li mamleches kohanim” but forgets “v’goy kodosh”. It ignores the Jewish people while exalting the piety of the Jewish individual. It is doomed not because it is objectively “wrong”, but because it is incomplete. We are a people, a whole nation, and our responsibilities go way, way beyond whether we wrap 7 or 8 times our tfilin straps around our arms, or who we can exclude from being our shliach tzibur. Maybe we should focus on that a bit more.