To me conservative means one who wishes to restrict the federal government to the limits placed on it in the Constitution, with other powers to the states and the people. This means predominantly, limiting the size and scope of the federal government. This means that many social issues, not mentioned in the Constitution, should not be decided by the federal government except by amendment, but left to the states. Roe vs. Wade (which by the way Rand does crusade against) is the reason why you don’t want these issues in the federal purview; once that happens, as a Christian, I have nowhere to go to escape this modern Sodom and Gomorroh unless I overturn Roe vs. Wade. If it were at the state level, most states would ban or severely restrict abortion and fewer children would be murdered. There is a huge distinction between Constitutional Conservatives like myself and Rand Paul and liberals; we want the federal government to not have the power to curtail our religious freedoms and God given rights, the liberals advocate using the federal government to guarantee them every kind of perversion and debauchary while permenantly revoking the rights of Christians and other persecuted classes. A world of difference.
Every single issue in the Constitution is a social issues unless one means by "social issues" that there are issues one wishes were not issues, issues that one just doesn't care about, issues one wishes would just go away.
We should not expect the Creator to protect His endowment to our rights of liberty and property while we alienate and violate His first endowment of the right to life to the most defenseless persons.
Matthew 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
I shudder to think of what the expression on God's face is right now.