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<p>Marriage has its advantages but some think the nation’s laws give married couples too much favorable treatment and the only way to even the playing field is to de-legalize the institution.</p> <p>A group of legal scholars and gay advocacy groups are calling for marriage to be de-legalized in order to make the distribution of benefits more fair for people who aren’t married, including gay couples.</p>

Tension between "pro-U.S." and anti-war groups at "teach-in" Veritable battle lines were drawn in front of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library on Thursday as emotional debates on the war issue ensued at a "teach-in" organized by UH faculty and staff. Flash points of heated arguments popped, but eventually fizzled without great incident, when student demonstrators calling themselves not necessarily pro-war, but "pro-U.S.A.," congregated outside the anti-war gathering of professors, UH staff and students, who started organizing at 10 a.m. Thursday. Sarah Brantly, a public relations senior, said she walked by the large rally, listened to what they were saying and...

When it comes to the location of free speech activities on the University of Houston campus, some critics believe there is an unspoken rule: political correctness. Last year, UH officials went to court to try to stop a student anti-abortion group from demonstrating on a main plaza near the library, claiming the university had always relegated speech activities to designated free speech zones that did not include the plaza. But Thursday, university officials allowed students to hold a gay rights rally in an area that is not a free speech zone. That's because administrators determined that the rally, which drew...