I want to go on record as respecting those serving in uniform both in the military and first responders. They are people who run into danger to keep their neighborhoods and the country safe.

I believe that protests are about a system that doesn’t work for everyone. Sometimes taking a stand means taking a knee or raising a fist in the air as John Carlos and Tommie Smith during the Mexico City Olympics. It’s better to have peaceful resistance than to have chaos.

I took a couple of knees for my faith at church this morning. I’m glad that there is freedom in this country to take knees of conscious and protest when people are suffering and oppressed. Flags and anthems are never more important than the people. Without the people everything else is meaningless. I’m for peace, equality, life, liberty and happiness for all. Anything else is unacceptable.

Sometimes heresy and divergence can be the only way to shake things up so people are reminded that people and not dogma that matters most.