Sean Dinces

Sean Dinces (sdinces [at] gmail.com (sdinces [at] gmail.com)) is a veteran and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. He is currently a doctoral student in American Studies at Brown University.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Liberal Militarist Diversion

On May 27, the House of Representatives approved an amendment to the latest military spending bill that would lift the ban on gays in the U.S. military and effectively end the policy of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), which stipulates that a soldier must be discharged if he or she admits to participating in homosexual acts. But former Army Lieutenant Daniel Choi, the poster boy of the movement to repeal the ban, is not satisfied.