Okay, I gotta get this off my chest. How is taking a knee ‘disrespectful’?

One kneels in church. One kneels to say one’s prayers. One kneels before authority when authority bestows rewards, like knighthood. And one kneels before the love of one’s life when one asks them to be yours for always.

So how is taking a knee before one’s flag, requesting the powers that be to apply the rule of law to oneself and one’s friends and family equally, the way they apply the rule of law to themselves and their own, disrespectful? I gotta say, I don’t get it.

On second thought, I’m okay with not getting it.