Political Notebook: Out Catholics vie for SF supervisor seat
Purged from their home country of Ethiopia following a Marxist takeover of the east African country in 1974, the parents of Honey Mahogany found refuge in San Francisco.
Unable to continue his medical school studies, her father became a taxi driver to make ends meet and afford sending Mahogany and her siblings to local Catholic schools.The St.
Gabriel Catholic Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory alumna grew up in the Outer Sunset and attended mass at St.
Gabriel Church a few blocks from her family's apartment. It was where her parents married and where she and her siblings were baptized."Fun fact, my family is devoutly Catholic; pre-Vatican II Catholic," noted Mahogany. "We were brought up to be very, very, very good Catholics."Mahogany made a point to discuss her family's religious leanings at her June 2 kickoff of her campaign to be elected in November to the District 6 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors because those roots and the lessons her father imparted onto her at an early age are behind why she is now seeking the elected office."I am still a good Catholic girl at heart.
