Autumn Allison/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee
If you stand with your hand over your heart at ballgames while the national anthem plays and military planes soar overhead, God bless you.
If you don’t, God bless you, too.
But if you say it’s “wrong” to use the anthem to protest social injustice and that athletes and others who do so “should stick to sports” during events like the NFL’s showcase match-up between the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys in Glendale on Monday night, then we have a fundamental disagreement over what it means to be an American.