In the new Lord of the Rings online game, it turns out nobody can get married, and it is because they didn't want to discriminate against the homosexuals so they chose not to let anyone get married. They claim they are keeping pure to Tolkien's set mythology in the game, but there were so many gay undercurrents to Frodo and Sam's relationship you have to wonder is that really true. It's a game...just let everyone get married if they want to.

From the article:

A well-documented Salon piece tracks a bit of controversy surrounding the new Tolkien-esque MMO Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.

It seems that, after a heated in-house debate, LOTRO developer Turbine decided to remove the option for marriage between characters over concerns that same-sex weddings would inevitably take place. Salon’s Katherine Glover writes:

Largely due to the uniquely libertarian culture of game design, games are ahead of the real world in terms of acceptance of same-sex marriage… Today, the discussion of same-sex marriage in games redraws the battle lines over the issue, making it not a fight over marriage but an issue of the philosophy of video games themselves

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com