Louie crew

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Louie Crew (right) married his partner Ernest Clay in 2013

Louie Crew (* 1936 in Anniston , Alabama ) is an American Anglic and LGBT activist. He is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark . However, his notoriety stems more from his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by Christians in general, and in the Episcopal Church of the United States in particular.

job

Louie Crew earned his bachelor's degree from Baylor University and his master's degree from Auburn University in 1959 . He then taught English at various universities until his retirement . In 1971 he received his PhD from the University of Alabama with a thesis on language as an instrument of protest in the literature of Charles Dickens .

family

His partner for over 30 years has been Ernest Clay .

Believe

Crew has been heavily involved in the Episcopal Church for decades and founded the organization IntegrityUSA in 1974. When Crew started out for accepting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in the Episcopal Church, he was largely condemned or not taken seriously; today, however, many within the Episcopal Church are in agreement with his views. However, there is less approval in the Church of Nigeria ; Crew reports on an encounter with Archbishop Peter Akinola , when he broke off contact when he found out that Crew was gay. In an interview with the New York Times , Akinola said he immediately shook hands with the acquaintance when he learned of Crew's sexual orientation .

Since 1989 he has been a member of Grace Church in Newark. He served on the Executive Council of Episcopal Church from 2002 to 2006 and still serves as Secretary for Province II of the Episcopal Church. He maintains a wide range of information about the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Fellowship .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louie Crew: The Lamb Replaces the Shepherd: Christianity As Revolutionary ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in The Wittness @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thewitness.org
  2. ^ Lydia Polgreen and Laurie Goodstein, "At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian," New York Times , December 20, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Crew, Louie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American English scholar and LGBT activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Anniston , Alabama