Heroic News: “White House admits: 'we violated religious rights'” plus 10 more

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• White House admits: 'we violated religious rights'
• Planned Parenthood rages at scorned food pantry donation
• Sex in the City actress: 'my homosexuality is a choice'
• Fearless motherhood: Duggar mom talks future pregnancies
• How to date your wife
• Religious leaders, academics rebuff Obama 'compromise'
• Texas ultrasound law goes into effect after heated court battle
• Washington gov. signs gay 'marriage' law into effect
• Chinese 'birth tourists' flood CNMI to skirt 'One Child' policy
• The cost of free contraceptives
• CDC warns 'untreatable gonorrhea' is on its way

White House admits: 'we violated religious rights' Posted: 14 Feb 2012 10:41 AM PST “No institution that has — non-profit institution — that has religious principles that we violated has to pay for or directly offer these services,” Lew said. “But women have access to the kinds of care that they are entitled to.”

Planned Parenthood rages at scorned food pantry donation Posted: 14 Feb 2012 09:20 AM PST Paul’s Pantry in Green Bay--an outreach of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and Wisconsin’s largest free food pantry--refused to send a truck to pick up a food donation from Planned Parenthood, prompting a torrent of hateful e-mails and telephone calls.

Sex in the City actress: 'my homosexuality is a choice' Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:59 AM PST For years we have been told that homosexuality is something people are born with — like the color of one’s skin — and that it can’t be changed. Gay-rights activists insist this is so, because, they say, if people don’t choose to be gay, it would be wrong to discriminate against them in things like marriage, adoption, and legal benefits.

Fearless motherhood: Duggar mom talks future pregnancies Posted: 14 Feb 2012 08:41 AM PST Despite the pain of her recent miscarriage, TLC reality-show star and mother of 19 Michelle Duggar says she'd like to have more children if she's able. "Every child is a blessing from the Lord," Michelle said in a green-room interview with TODAY Moms. Even given her recent loss, she said, she's not ruling out more pregnancies: "I would do it again."

How to date your wife Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:04 AM PST Oh, aren’t I lucky? Last year, I got to write a post on Good Friday. This year, it’s Valentine’s Day. Different decor, same general atmosphere: suffering and tears, remorse and reparations. At least on Good Friday, you don’t have a bunch of single people watching you suffer and saying, “Oh my gosh, you’re so lucky!”

Religious leaders, academics rebuff Obama 'compromise' Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:54 AM PST Over 200 college presidents, academics, religious leaders and journalists have signed a letter that denounces President Obama’s “accommodation” to the contraception mandate for failing to “remove the assault on religious liberty.”

Texas ultrasound law goes into effect after heated court battle Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:50 AM PST A Texas law requiring women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound went into effect Tuesday, despite a court challenge from pro-abortion opponents.

Washington gov. signs gay 'marriage' law into effect Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:49 AM PST Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books recognizing same-sex 'marriage' on Monday, as opponents of the measure signed by Governor Christine Gregoire vowed to try to prevent it from ever taking effect.

Chinese 'birth tourists' flood CNMI to skirt 'One Child' policy Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:49 AM PST Many tourists from mainland China who come to the CNMI to give birth to U.S. citizen children wanted to get around the Chinese government's “one child policy,” said one of the individuals who are helping these “birth tourists” through translation services for a fee averaging $30 an hour.

The cost of free contraceptives Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:46 AM PST Over the last few days, it has been interesting and almost comical to watch President Barack Obama handle the growing opposition regarding the decision of his administration to mandate coverage of contraceptives in the national health care reform.

CDC warns 'untreatable gonorrhea' is on its way Posted: 14 Feb 2012 06:44 AM PST Gonorrhea, one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the United States, is increasingly showing resistance to one of the last known effective antibiotic treatments, leading researchers from the Centers for Disease Control to "sound the alarm" about potentially untreatable forms of the disease.