Dear Abby

By Abigail Van Buren

Dear Abby:

Recently you printed a letter from somone who claimed to be a well-adjusted homosexual.

Ther is no such thing as a well-adjusted homosexual; the two terms are antonymous. Homosexuality, male or female, is a form of sexual deviation which is symptomatic of personality disorder.

By any reasonable standard of human development, homosexuality is an abnormal human condition which

needs.competent professional treatment. It is, in effect,

a form of emotional illness. I think that you would be as interested as I in what your readers think about the subject

Happy Heterosexual Dear Happy:

By whose definition is homosexuality an illness? There are homosecuals who live socially well-adjusted, discreet, personally happy lives, whose homosexuality would come as a surprise to many of their close heterosexual friends.

The fact that homosexuality is morally condemned by most people in our culture makes it seem abnor-

mal. In other times and in other cultures it has not always been so judged.

Much of the maladjustment seen in homosexuals is due to the rejection, persecution and guilt imposed upon them by intolerant and ignorant contemporaries.