While I'm not a fan of explicit political messages in games, I haven't seen many explicit GLBT themes in games because (for the most part) you have to play these games in a particular way to trigger these themes; and it doesn't seem political because they seem to be there to provide natural interactions for people who are gay. Although there is probably a religious minority who are upset with EA for including these themes, I think most people are upset with EA for abusive business practices.
With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't EA who produced the bots. A friend of mine (who is also a developer) is a pretty dedicated environmentalist and was volunteering for a local environmental group; for awhile he aided them by producing web-pages for their different campaigns and he quit because he was asked to update software they were using to manipulate online polls and petitions because the sites they were bombarding introduced anti-spam measures. While I have no proof, I wouldn't be surprised if a similar "gay-rights" group decided to throw their bots at EA's petition to get the result they want from it.
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