[1rudeboy]

Don’t know about the hate crime stuff, but taping someone in their bedroom without their knowledge is an invasion of privacy. Open-and-shut.

[cuban leaf]

—...taping someone in their bedroom without their knowledge is an invasion of privacy. Open-and-shut.—

I agree. The hate crime is,literally, a “thought crime”. It is absurd on the face of it. It also implies that if he had done it and his roomemate was heterosexual and with his girlfriend, it would have been a lesser crime. That makes the homosexual couple more valuable and more protected under the law.

That is discrimination and unconstitutional.

[Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri]

I would tend to think that you don’t have a great deal of privacy on a dormatory and this is a political statement - after all, homosexual deviants cannot be scorned, ridiculed, or bothered even if it can reasonably be shown to be a mental illness.

[PGR88]

Don’t know about the hate crime stuff, but taping someone in their bedroom without their knowledge is an invasion of privacy. Open-and-shut.

It was his bedroom too. And his young gay roommate was bringing strangers into it.

We all know that if the secret-taping was of a heterosexual football player, it would simply have become a campus joke.

[muawiyah]

There was no taping that the Prosecution could come up with, but there’s no invasion of privacy when it’s your own room. Dorm rooms really aren’t the same as your bedroom in your home.

[fwdude]

Don’t know about the hate crime stuff, but taping someone in their bedroom without their knowledge is an invasion of privacy. Open-and-shut.

It was a shared dorm room. Sounds to me like the expectation of privacy was pretty much nil.

It was the posting to the web that was the problem.