What actually happened:
New content will include will include same-sex options. It just happens that the new content only includes one planet. Future new content will also include same-sex options.

I don't understand why the submitter is taking such an offensive stance with their post. There is no conspiracy against gays, especially when it comes to Bioware who are one of the pioneers of same-sex relationships in their games (dating back to Baldur's Gate).

What would you prefer, that this content wasn't added at all? No let me guess, you'd prefer they revamp the whole game. Nevermind that their team has been cut down to a fraction of their original size due to the commercial unsuccessfulness of the game. Instead lets invent a big issue out of their good-faith attempt to add same-sex content even with their dwindling resources that would arguably better be spent on content like warzones, flashpoints, and operations.

My cell phone and I are inseperable. Seriously! I will not go ANYWHERE (including bed, shower, meetings, toilet) without it. Why? Cause I WANT to be contactable all the time.

I'm kinda getting the impression from some of the above messages that the "I hate cell phones" feeling is rather US-centric? I live in Dublin (Ireland), and I read a statistic recently (yeah yeah I know statistics can lie) that 9/10 adults in the city have a mobile phone (85% of which are nokia btw).

I've seen homeless people living on the street with mobile phones. I'd imagine the 10% is mainly comprised of the older (70+) age group. I'm involved in teaching a youth group of 10-16 year olds, with 30-40 in the group. Every single one of those children have phones. And no, their parents are certainly not rich.

So it really is the minority over here at least who are in the hate-cell-phones camp. Someone though made the point above that in Europe we have SMS - its actually a huge factor. In their personal lives (as opposed to their business/jobs), people simply do not ring anyone; everything is done via text.

I could actually rant on quite a bit more about this but... eh... its 3am, screw you guys I'm going to bed ;)