My good friend Deal Hudson published this today at Catholic.org. It's outstanding. I've posted it here just in case the link ever goes bad. Read my response here. — RDM
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Why Social Conservatives Should Become Cultural Conservatives
by Deal Hudson
March 7, 2014
Catholic.org
WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - At the annual Paul Weyrich Awards Dinner this week, Foster Friess, a well-known philanthropist and leader among conservatives, made a simple suggestion: Social conservatives should become, and refer to themselves as, cultural conservatives.
When I heard him say it, I thought to myself, "Friess is exactly right!" Then wondered, given the purpose of this series of columns, why didn't I think of that?
The examples given by Friess, of the difference between a social and cultural conservative, were primarily those of human suffering that social conservatives are regularly accused of not caring about. For example, the plight of low income single-mothers and their children and the p…
