Constable John Stevens

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    “The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.”
    —Bishop John Spong (b. 1931)

    “Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
    Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,
    Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set,
    And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
    Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)