NEW YORK (AP)

Orthodox bishops' resolution frowns on homosexual life-style The Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops says "persons who embrace homosexual life-styles are not qualified to teach children or act as spiritual leaders."

In a resolution adopted at their spring meeting, bishops heading Eastern Orthodox churches with five million American members said secular pressures seek to establish homosexual life-styles as being of equal worth to marriage.

Although offering sympathy and pastoral assistance to homosexuals, the bishops said Scripture and church tradition condemn "voluntary homosexual acts as sinful and forbidden and detrimental to existence of the Christian home "