The New York Empire State Building Versus Mother Teresa

The tallest building in New York City has honored in the past icons like Martin Luther King and Frank Sinatra, but the owners have said no to Mother Teresa who would have turned 100 in August.

The owners say that they have a policy of not using the Empire State Building to honor religious icons; the iconic building owners went on to say that if they were to make an exception for the late Catholic nun, then many more exceptions would be coming… in essence opening the floodgates. There are those who are saying that the floodgates are already opened because of the many New York’s tallest building has honored.

The Catholic league is very upset because it wants to know what it is the different dressing the building to honor Hanukkah or Christmas and the Nobel Laureate?

I do not know what the the conflict is between the owners of The Empire State Building and Mother Teresa. Sometimes there are warranted exceptions to the supposed rules etched in Teflon… and honoring Mother Teresa is one.  Are you telling me that the owners of the iconic building wouldn’t honor the Dalai Lama in a similar situation? Tell me the difference between Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa?

Good business sense alone says that the owners of the Empire State Building should bow to the pressure and honor Mother Teresa… because there are many Italian Politicians and the New York public at large who are upset with their “dissed” of the Catholic icon.  The Catholic League has stated that it has the money and the public support to create problems for the building owners.

I supposed if you have won a Nobel Peace prize and was voted the most admired woman in the world for three consecutive years in row and lived your entire life procuring the means to take care of orphans… then you are not worthy to be honored by the owners of the Empire State building.