Good to see the owner of the Empire State Building is such a classy guy

Empire State Building owner cites policy in saying no lights for Mother Teresa's birthday

Advertisement Buy AP Photo Reprints Your Questions Answered AP answers your questions on the news, from IMF loan money to vacuuming up spilled oil NEW YORK (AP) -- The Empire State Building's owner says he won't light the landmark skyscraper for Mother Teresa because of a policy against honoring individual religious figures. Anthony Malkin's statement Wednesday comes amid an uproar over the decision not to illuminate the building in blue and white lights in August on what would have been the late Nobel Prize winner's 100th birthday. A lay group, the Catholic League, made the request in February and was denied. The league says individual religious figures have, in fact, received the honor. It says the building's lights were illuminated after Cardinal John O'Connor died in 2000 and extinguished after Pope John Paul II died in 2005. On Wednesday afternoon, City Council members planned to discuss what they called a snub of the revered nun who worked for the poor and the sick. © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policyand Terms of Use. Click here for copyright permissions!  Copyright 2008 Associated Press