HUH?????
Restaurants are public accomodations and they cannot discriminate on the basis of age.
I don't know where you live, but that is just not true. Many establishments do not permit anyone under 21.
While it may be a place of public accommodation, it is still private property and the proprietor retains the right to refuse service to anyone.
What I find hilarious (other than the fact that many of the applauders of this child ban labor under the delusion that they are also Christians), is that many of those complaining about the presence of children are the same people who whine about not being able to blow smoke on other people while they're eating.
I don't complain about children, but respect the right of the owner to choose his or her clientele based upon his/her preferences for the clientele. Something you people who whine about those owners who prefer to permit smoking within their establishments do not respect, while supposedly claiming to be Christian.
That is based on another law: the drinking age.
You can't ban those under six by invoking that law - it has to be everyone under 21. Could a restaurant ban any guests over the age of 60?
While it may be a place of public accommodation, it is still private property and the proprietor retains the right to refuse service to anyone.
Of course he does, but he cannot designate an entire class, race, or age group of people. If he wants to refuse service to a party, he has to do it on a case by case basis.
respect the right of the owner to choose his or her clientele based upon his/her preferences for the clientele
No such "right" exists.
If you open your doors to the public, you open your doors to the public.
If you want to run a private club with membership requirements, then you're going to have to do it on that basis, with all that it entails.
No, not at all. State laws may regulate who may be served where alcohol is sold but I'd have great fun with a restaurant that turned me away because I had a child with me. Hello lawsuit, good bye restaurant.