Honoree Iman addresses the crowd at Cipriani’s.
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Neil Patrick Harris (right) with his husband David Burtka.
➤ PETE BUTTIGIEG, from p.16
As last week’s debate made
clear, the South Bend mayor is positioning
himself as a moderate alternative
should Biden’s campaign
struggles deepen. Buttigieg forcefully
challenged Warren on the
cost of her Medicare For All plan,
and he also took on former Congressmember
Beto O’Rourke on
the Texan’s proposal for a mandatory
buy-back of assault weapons.
Buttigieg told the God’s Love
audience he was “not going to get
political” in his remarks, but he
returned several times to “the incredibly
diffi cult and divisive moment”
the nation is going through
— and made clear his political
style is based on addition not division.
“We cannot embrace the idea
that the only way we can achieve
change is to divide ourselves still
further into good and bad people
and hope that if we just add up
all the good people it will make a
majority against the bad people,”
Buttigieg said. “It’s tempting to believe
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that the world works that way.
But just ask anybody you love. The
world is full of people, just people
capable of very good and very bad
things.”
The nation, he said, also suffers
from a “crisis of belonging,” that
affects everyone from isolated LGBTQ
youth to displaced autoworkers
to cancer patients.
“The deep and unmet yearning
for belonging,” Buttigieg said, “is
contributing to everything from
the broken politics of this moment
to the increase in what are called
deaths from despair” — referring
to the lethal toll of the opioid crisis.
Buttigieg was introduced by
playwright Matthew Lopez, whose
sprawling two-part “The Inheritance”
is now in previews on
Broadway after a celebrated run
in London. God’s Love also honored
Estée Lauder executive group
president John Demsey for his
work with the MAC VIVA GLAM
Fund that supports people living
with HIV and supermodel and
philanthropist Iman.
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