Higayon Iguli?

I am not sure if that's how you say circular logic in modern Hebrew but since our middling mentor is in his Hebraic haunts I thought I'd do him that courtesy. His latest missive is a classic example of the risks of veering too far from classic Talmudic training.

http://haemtza.blogspot.com/2016/04/when-fellow-jews-are-hurt-because-of-my.html#disqus_thread

Let's examine it piece by piece

"Why am I so opposed to giving women Semicha? ... rabbinic authorities across the Orthodox Hashkafic spectrum are opposed. Including the Roshei Yeshiva at YU, the flagship institution of Modern Orthodoxy"

- this is classic circular reasoning. You define Orthodox as only those who oppose women's semicha, then point to the fact that orthodox across the board are against it. I am not sure how Reb Harry, who was Talmud educated, can even articulate the vehrter. It doesn't even start

"It is not like the issue of Metzizah B’Peh. Where there is a variety of views by rabbinic leaders – depending on what their Hashkafa is"

- I am trying to decipher poshuteh pshat in this. Which hashkafa can RHM possibly be referring to that would have an impact on the technical halachos of milah?? As Yerachmiel Begun once had his boys sing, "it's not a matter of hashkafa ..." (who can name the song??)

"At the end of the day, I have to respect rabbinic leadership when its agreement on an issue is across the board"

- how far across? Well, you know, not too far

Bottom line is that Harry is employing the exact same reasoning as the Haredim he routinely eschews. Just that he considers Rabbis Schachter and Lichtenstein within bounds, whereas for the overwhelming majority of the Torah world, they are not on the radar. 

This has been articulated multiple times in many ways by his commenters but, RHM, I truly believe, is sincere in not getting it.