hello99 –
He is not ignorant at all. He is well informed of the metzius. This is a fact. You do not have to believe me and I suppose I wouldn’t believe the testimony of an anonymous blogger either. But you yourself admit to his intelligence and to your surprise that one of such intelligence would issue such psakim, so it would behoove you to at least admit the possibility that perhaps there is something you didn’t think of. (And I mean know disrespect by that. I think you are probably the biggest talmid chacham here and I am not chas veshalom coming to put you down. I just happen to respect my rav more.)
I am not going to debate this with you, because I am afraid I won’t do a good enough job, and I would not want to chas veshalom disgrace my rav due to my own shortcomings. I am confident that he can stand his ground in any area of halacha. That’s all.