Back in June, when the House passed its first version of the FY14 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the anti-gay crowd was doing a victory dance over the fact that the House version of the bill included Rep. John Fleming's (R-LA) so-called "religious freedom" amendment. If passed, the language of the Fleming amendment, the real purpose of which was anything but religious freedom, would essentially have taken away the ability of military commanders to do anything to stop anti-gay harassment and discrimination within their ranks until it rose from the level of merely being a threat to good order and discipline to the level of already having done "actual harm" to good order and discipline. In other words, it was a sneaky way of reversing the protections gained by LGB service members with the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" by preventing military commanders from doing anything to stop anti-gay "actions and speech" (under the guise of religious freedom, of course) until it was too late and "actual harm" had already been done.
Meanwhile, also back in June, a Senate version of the "religious freedom" amendment, introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), was being voted on by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Sen. Lee's amendment, however, was nothing like Rep. Fleming's House amendment. Most importantly, it did not contain anything like the Fleming amendment's language that would strip military commanders of the ability to stop anti-gay harassment and discrimination.