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Don’t people have the right to decide who they want to live with?

Of course they do, it’s just that this crazy woman in Michigan was being hypercritical. This student did not post her ad in the University, she posted it in the Church. In my church, we have bulletin boards where similar things happen a great deal of the time. I personally was and still am a man of studying. Is it offensive that I get to know who on Earth my roommates are? Of course not. It’s practical and reasonable. As a committed student, the last thing I need is a roommate who plays video games all night, blatantly or indiscretely has to mess with his girlfriend in your face, smokes pot, etc. In fact, I even tried getting to know other people who wanted to study like I did, not to say that finding a Christian roommate entails this, but it sounds like this young woman was probably looking for that. This woman named Nancy who whines about this has no life, and needs to shut up for once. I doubt there was any discriminatory intent for that woman who set up the add, and this Nancy who goes to church is obviously forgetting the advice of Jesus to “judge not”.

My story ends with me leaving dormitory life and living in an off-campus apartment. It was way better there, and I did something quite similar in getting to meet my roommate at my own church congregation.