Louie Crew

Erman Louie Crew, Jr. is an American professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University in Newark. He is best known for his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by Christians in general, and the Episcopal Church in particular. He sat on the Episcopal Church's executive council (2000–2006), and serves as secretary of Province 2 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Louie Crew was born in Anniston, Alabama. He attended Baylor University and received his master's degree in 1959 from Auburn University and his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in 1971.In 1971, after a lengthy southern courtship, Louie married celebrity colon cancer patient, Flo Crew. They divorced in...