A Texas couple who landed themselves a rare night out with friends says it was cut short when the restaurant kicked them out for wearing face masks, which they say they wore to protect their immunocompromised 4-month-old son.
When Wester entered the restaurant, she said, she remembers being asked to take her mask off but she assumed it was so the hostess could match her face to her ID.
After the waitress came over to relay the manager’s message to remove their masks, Wester said, she was “speechless.” “And you know, even though both my husband and I are vaccinated, anytime we’re able to leave we put on a mask, even if it’s just, like, walking towards people, if we’re out and about. You know, obviously, it’s not like a perfect system – you have to take your mask off to eat, maybe to take photos, things like that, but we do our best,” she said she told the waitress.
“I want to respect a small business,” she said. “And I know that right now in Covid and with the economy, it is very hard. But I don’t think that the way that he’s handling his business is very professional, and it’s not very hospitable, either.” “It’s kind of just made me realize that maybe I shouldn’t go out anymore,” she said. “At least not here in Texas. Not right now. It’s just it’s not a good environment.”for Americans based on race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status, national origin and citizenship, but it doesn’t outline any protections specifically regarding face coverings.
“Second, state and local governments often expand the list of categories against which discrimination is prohibited,” she said. “So things like pregnancy, transgender status, marital status, etc. get protection in certain jurisdictions, which means different rules might apply in different places.”
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