AviK:
I honestly hate to engage you in conversation as we are coming from two ends of the spectrum, and no matter what I say, I won’t convince you as your mindset is pretty much set in stone, but I’ll try for the sake of all the other readers here. (I’ll break it up in a few posts for readability.)
1. Toeles: All the honest geirim, who struggled to be accepted as sincere and find a Rabbi/Rebetzin to mentor him/her, learned the halachos, became full fledged Jews and made and continue to make serious sacrifices for their Yiddishkeit every day, to them I say Chazak!
We don’t want them to ch”v think that the more politically connected or rich one is the less is required of them. In other words it’s all G-d forbid a sham.
Additionally, the claim that none of us will be meshadech with their kids is ludicrous. We are all related, and Kol Yisroel areivim zeh lezeh. If you go to any random Jewish wedding and don’t find someone you have a familial connection with, that would be more of a chiddush… Their kids so far go to Orthodox day schools and can end up leaning either way in their Yiddishkeit – and marry accordingly.
If we let everyone do as they please when it comes to geirus, we might seriously need to institute yichus certificates in Orthodox America.