Anthony Malkin
Posted on 06/09/2010 9:21:09 AM PDT by Steelfish
NY's Empire State Building Says 'No' To Catholic Group's Request For Mother Teresa Lighting
June 08, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's Empire State Building said "yes" to Mariah Carey, dog shows, cancer charities — and even the 60th anniversary of communist China.
But the landmark skyscraper's owners have declined to illuminate it in honor of the late Mother Teresa.
"They're bigots! They have an animus against Catholics!" Catholic League President Bill Donohue told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
He said his advocacy group requested that the building glow on Aug. 26 for the centennial of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner's birth. The request was denied in an unsigned, faxed letter, Donohue said, "and they never gave an explanation."
He said Empire State Building officials were "stonewalling" not only the Catholic League, but also the media and members of New York's City Council.
Now, another prominent New York Catholic is voicing her outrage.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told the AP that she spoke Tuesday with Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin.
Although the real estate mogul was "very professional" and said he "would reflect on the points I made," she said, he didn't give her a satisfactory answer.
She told the AP the answer should be "yes to Mother Teresa."
telephone messages left for building spokeswoman Melanie Maasch were not returned Tuesday. The telephone at Malkin Holdings, Malkin's Manhattan-based company, rang unanswered late Tuesday afternoon.
In New York, Mother Teresa helped open a pioneering hospice for AIDS patients in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
"Her impact on the world was so much greater than one religious group," Quinn said.
Although she's Catholic, the Democratic City Council speaker has often disagreed with the religiously traditional League on issues such as gay marriage. Quinn is openly gay.
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The Empire State Building says no to commemorating Mother Teresa’s 100th birtday, but has no qualms about lighting up the building for Communist China. Mother Teresa helped feed the hungry and heal the sick. Communist China makes the sick sicker and keeps the hungry starving and they are no slouch in the violating human rights either.
It also went green to commemorate Ramadan as well. So they can’t use the “no religion” argument.
New York deserves the mosque.
Now Mother Teresa is an enemy of America?
th is is very simple: Mr. Malkin is a maggot.
Don’t the A-rabs own this thing? (Empire State building.) If I recall somewhere I think it was here, FRs,that a group from Dubai bought it. If they do they can do what ever they want with it.
No, we don’t deserve the mosque...the sane people should leave New York and see what becomes of her.
It was green for THREE DAYS for muslim feast
Couldn’t have said it better. Let the Jihadi’s have it.
Anthony Malkin
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