Roommate Choosing is my Right, not the Governments

I found this article at Reason, and just need to laugh at the attempt by the governmental agencies trying to regulate roommates.com, and more importantly attempting to change how we look for cohabitants.

"I may not be a gay man, but I have a lot of things in common with gay men. I'm very tidy. I have a great sense of decoration. Whatever."

So said Judge Alex Kozinski, during the freewheeling appellate arguments of a lawsuit alleging discrimination of the part of the roommate matching service roommates.com. He was speaking for a hypothetical woman who might like to reply to an ad requesting a gay male roommate, perhaps imagining herself Grace to the poster's Will.

The suit, filed by the Fair Housing Council of the San Fernando Valley and the Fair Housing Council of San Diego, and heard by the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena last month, claims that such ads are discriminatory and is suing roommates.com to force them to police their content.

The article then goes on and lays out a slew of laws which may or may not be applicable to this particular case, but the bottom line shouldn't I as the home owner or primary lease holder have the ability to decide who I want to live with? If I am a landlord, I agree I should not be able to discriminate against a primary renter. However, if I am already occupying a residence, I should be able to find someone that I like, and would prefer to share my space with, but hey maybe this is just me.

It looks like another case of government trying to limit the use of the internet and regulate what I can do inside my house. Should be interesting to watch.