Deal Hudson: Why Social Conservatives Should Become Cultural Conservatives

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…