Private property owner by private business. Same as no.shoes no shirt no service. The civil rights act only deals with race and and later was amended for gender and now sexual orientation. As long as the policies are applied equally with regards to those protected attributes the owner can require any and I mean ANY reasonable conditions for services rendered. I could choose to require every person entering my establishment to wear a pink tutu perfectly legal as long as I apply that to men women trans nobinary asexual white black yellow red. My civil Attorney has won cases for night clubs that require no hats or no jerseys or no tennis shoes which the POC argue is discriminatory he has won many a case as long as the owners apply it equally to all. In NYC there are places that make you wear a collared shirt tye and sport cost just to walk in they could make you wear a head bandanna or a feather boa for that matter it’s their.sovereign right as the owners to do so don’t like it your only recourse is do your business elsewhere. I managed a night club for years and we routinely used the dress code to keep people out and had theme nights where if you wanted to enter you had to be in our chosen costume some nights we had masquerade ball and yup you wore the mask we required or take a hike we had lines around the block no shortages of willing customers. This was Austin home of the victim class we got sued once by some POC that felt out dress codes were wrong they lost badly and in Texas loser can be countered sued for legal costs which we did won a large judgment and made sure that news was put out lest anyone else feel.froggy
Not exactly the same. Mask requirements are coming from the gubmint, which are requiring private business owners to enforce them or be shut down. Mask edicts should be temporary and brief. 10+ months of these dictates is too long, and is plenty of time for this to be dealt with through the legislative process.