PBA: Maybe we just have different friends? I dunno. My experience with organizations such as JOFA has been terrible and I completely agree that they have nothing to do with Orthodoxy. My experience with individuals has been mixed. I do think it’s a Chaval though to stop those L’sheim Shamayim individuals from doing things L’sheim Shamayim though. I’m a theoretical idealist, meaning that when I talk in theory I aim for the ideal. Practical situations sometimes require adjustments based on things like is the person trying to be Oker a Minhag or do they just want to follow Halachah. But that doesn’t change what the Din should be in theory.
And I have no issue with the position that Hashem made for anyone in Judaism. Chas V’shalom. HKBH gave everyone a purpose and opportunities to fulfill that purpose. I just get very upset when people try to distort what that purpose is for certain people.
(Just curious, are you saying that I don’t practice what the rest of Orthodox Judaism does or that you don’t? Or that we both don’t?)