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On Sunday mornings from the second week in September to the first week in June, I assist and sometimes deliver the homily at a special service in our Episcopal church. The service is for boys from 5th through 9th grades who are boarding school students at a school across the street from the church that was founded by a former Rector of our church in the 1920's.

The special service was instituted when my Sunday School class, which met during the regular church service, grew from 25 the first year to 83 the fifth year. This is now the 6th year of the special service and attendance is usually over 125.

I now find myself in a predicament as to what to say to these boys. They can be punished or kicked out of school for breaking any of God's laws, no matter how regretful they are after the fact. But now a practicing, non-repentant homosexual is elevated to Episcopal Bishop by an unapologetic Convention of Bishops of the Church that encourages them to submit to God and not man.