But there is one person in Lahore who openly mocks the conservative establishment: painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain.

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Some leaders from Aznar's conservative party have expressed fears openly -- and many others have done so privately -- that the prime minister's support for the war could hurt the party in Spanish municipal elections on May 25.

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Morsi, an American-educated engineer, "represents the older, more conservative wing of the Brotherhood and openly endorses a strict Islamic vision, " said Isobel Coleman of the Council on Foreign Relations -- a view Morsi seemed to try to rebut in his speech Sunday.

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Thus when his appointment of an openly gay spokesman on foreign affairs caused a stir in conservative circles, the campaign quickly fired him.

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Callers to conservative talk-radio shows made an issue of the fact that it was an openly gay judge, Broward County canvasser Judge Robert W. Lee, who was accepting ballots that were merely indented, not fully punched through.

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