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“Today would have been the 100th birthday of Mother Teresa and her supporters plan to protest outside the Empire State Building tonight because the iconic building’s management refuses to light the New York City skyscraper in her honor.

A Catholic group is rallying its troops after it says the building “stiffed” Mother Teresa, denying a request to light up the landmark in blue and white lights in commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s birth.

“To stiff Mother Teresa while giving this honor to every other Tom, Dick and Harry is not going to sit well with Catholics,” said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, which initiated the request for the commemorative lighting.

The upper floors of New York’s tallest building are often lit in festive colors for special occasions.

Three months after Catholic League officials submitted an application, its leaders say, they were stunned to receive a rejection. No explanation was given to them.

The building’s management told ABC News today, “The Empire State Building celebrates many cultures and causes in the world community with iconic lightings.

“Although ESB has a tradition of lightings for the religious holidays of Easter, Eid al-Fitr, Hanukkah, and Christmas, our lighting partnership guidelines — with which all organizations must agree as a condition for submitting an application — state clearly that we do not accommodate requests for religious figures or requests by religions and religious organizations.”

Since the rejection, Donohue, a well-known and often-polarizing figure involved in Catholic-American issues for nearly two decades, has mounted an ever-louder campaign to convince the building’s owners to reverse their decision.”

Well, via Ny Magazine, citing a Agence France Presse report from April 7, 2005 we know that the building owner’s position of not honoring religious figures is false they have in the past done exactly that.

The lights of New York’s Empire State Building will be dimmed Thursday night in a solemn tribute to Pope John Paul II on the eve of his funeral.

The skyscraper’s illuminations, which often change colour to reflect various events and national days, will be darkened at 9:27pm — the time of his death in the Vatican on April 2.

An Empire State Building spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, said the lights would remain dark for the whole night.

“We solemnly honor this great man of peace and the legacy he leaves for future generations,” Rubenstein said.”