A Denny’s employee quit on the spot in frustration after a pair of customers refused to wear a mask inside the privately-owned chain restaurant, inaccurately citing a “religious exemption” and the “Civil Rights Act of 1964.” Cellphone video posted to Reddit Tuesday shows a Denny’s server politely asking the maskless customers to wear their masks inside the restaurant as mandated by the state’s governor.
The anti-masker customers immediately cite several “religious exemptions,” which prompts the Denny’s employee to reject this outright by telling them twice, “you’re required to wear a mask.” But the two men, one of whom is wearing a shirt that quotes Franklin Battle, founder of the born-again Christian group, Jesus Christ Ministries,