The Senate's resolution

It looks like the Senate managed to pass a resolution (co-sponsored by Sens. Casey and Brownback), honoring and welcoming Pope Benedict XVI.  What was the hold-up?  Sen. Boxer didn't like language about the sanctity of life and religion-in-public-life.  Here's what had to be cut out:

"that neither attempts to strip our public spaces of religious expression nor denies the ultimate source of our rights and liberties";

"Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life"