oomis:
this topic is engendering a LOT of L”H, and somehow, especially after Tisha B’Av, this is especially inappropriate IMO
I remember once reading a letter to the editor of The Jewish Observer complaining about the magazine’s negative coverage of the positions of the Conservative movement. The letter similarly asked, “isn’t this lashon hara?” Although I don’t remember the exact wording of the response, the gist of it was that if there is a deviant movement seeking to undermine the observance of Torah and Mitzvos, it is not only permissible to speak up against it, it is obligatory. (As Edward Burke famously said, “In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing.”) And it is certainly li’toeles.
This applies even if Weiss and his cronies are indeed not apkorsim, which is its own issue. See the next part of this comment.
Sam2:
From R’ Willig’s article linked to above (thanks, DaMoshe):
“Rav Moshe continued to say that no battle, even one supported by the entire world, can succeed in changing the Torah, and women who fight to change the Torah’s eternal and immutable laws are heretics. If a woman wears talis or tefillin as a complaint against Hashem and His Torah it is prohibited as heresy since she thinks that it is possible to change Torah law… The movement to which Rav Moshe refers, now known as feminism or egalitarianism, continues to infiltrate Orthodox Judaism. The recent ordination of women is but one example. Unfortunately this practice is viewed by at least one of its proponents as part of an attempt to change Torah laws and ideas (see Crosscurrents July 29, 2015), precisely the heresy that Rav Moshe warned against.”