Mr Gul was first nominated for the presidency earlier this year but his candidacy was attacked by Turkey's secular establishment - in particular, the powerful military and outgoing President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.

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Mr. ElBaradei, the 68-year-old former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is seen by a broad range of opposition leaders as a rare secular liberal with the stature to challenge Egypt's political establishment.

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It would be an unconstitutional "entanglement" problem (violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment) if a secular court had to get into the business of deciding what Jewish law or Catholic canon was and what it said about a given dispute.

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