Welcome to bay area focus, im susan sikoran. May, president obama said he supported Marriage Equality for samesex couples. Will this impact the upcoming election . What is the status in california on samesex marriage and what other priorities are ahead . For insight, we welcome back attorney kate kendall, the executive director of nclr, the National Center for lesbian rights headquartered here in San Francisco. Welcome back, good to see you. Great to be back. Lets be clear. Sometimes people get a title and it washes them over quickly. National, you mean with problems, legal problems and issues for the entire country here fromfromSan Francisco. Thats right. Were based here. This is where we were founded in 1977, and we do work now all over the country representing the entire specto rum of the lesbian, gay, transsexual and gender community. Lets start with the marriage issue. Sure. It feels like a straight wound watching this back and forth and back and forth and its different in this st