[Avodah] Halacha vs. Policy - Poll re: Who To Marry

[Michael Makovi]

On my blog (http://michaelmakovi.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-to-marry-gentile-or-niddah.html?showComment=1265703245349#c7779517465018195534),
the following excellent response to me was given. I completely agree
with what this commenter said:

Shlomo said...
Michael, [what] you are assuming are [sic: is] that people [base]
their conclusions on a sense of natural morality as well as the
technical parameters of the halacha. While I agree with such an
approach, the philosophical basis for it is not so simple, and it's no
surprise that many Jews, in the haredi world and to a lesser extent in
the Jewish past, would think otherwise. That you and your modern
orthodox friends see R' Kaminetsky's conclusion as obvious just goes
to show that you were educated to have a different set of basic
assumptions from what is expected in his society. It does not make you
a gadol, even if in haredi society only gedolim could answer this
question correctly. And while your type of education has the advantage
of allowing you to answer this question with great ease, it is likely
that it also has certain disadvantages, as shown by certain flaws
which manifest themselves to a greater extent in the modern orthodox
community.

Michael Makovi