Hasbro's classic board game "Life" allows same sex coupling in its online edition, a free trial version of which is available for download to anyone.While many applaud the game's reflection of real lifestyle choices, some conservative parents are already complaining on the website's message boards arguing that the Milton Bradley game is "pushing the homosexual agenda."
Ironically, since the board game version first hit the market back in 1960, players have always had the option of putting the same color (blue or pink) pegs in the tiny car that drives players around a track that represents a path through life, moving from "leaving school" to "marriage" and beyond. The only thing the original game did not allow was for competitors to bypass marriage altogether, which may say a lot about how the makers of the game thought about life and equal rights long before the gay rights movement got underway in earnest.
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