“@ujm The people who you affectionately call “LWMO” made up the vast majority of Jews who consider themselves “Orthodox” for decades.”
Yseribus: This is, historically, factually absolutely incorrect. The vast majority of Jews who consider themselves “Orthodox” during, let’s say, Rav Moshe’s time were most certainly not what is now called LWMO. They were closer to what’s now RWMO. They never had the slightest thought of supporting women “rabbis”, women egalitarian “minyan”, supporting homosexuals, etc. Au contraire, they were very opposed to all that and considered that garbage to be completely non-Orthodox, and only to be found in the Reform and Conservative movements.
“and most of their children grow up and either drop the pretense of being Orthodox… So I don’t see the existence of “LWMO” as an issue that needs to be addressed, since it seems to be resolving itself without outside “help”…”
That’s a tragedy, not something that is “resolving itself”. What could be more tragic than a formerly Orthodox family, even if the extent of their Orthodoxy was Shabbos, Kosher and Taharas Hamishpacha, now dropping the little Orthodoxy that they did maintain and no longer identifying or practicing any Orthodox beliefs and practices such as Shabbos, Kosher and Taharas Hamishpacha?
The very reason that, as you said, “most of their children grow up and either drop the pretense of being Orthodox” is directly because they were led to believe by their MO leaderships that all the rest of the Taryag Mitzvos were optional, and only practiced by the “fanatics” known as Chareidim.