After being together for 22 years, Susan Youngworth and Marion Stone get "civil unionized" as Rev. Wes Mullins of the Pikes Peak Metropolitan Church called it during a ceremony with sixteen other couples at the Business of Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.. (Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
Katy Morrison and Toni Richards (left to right) react to getting "civil unionized" during a ceremony at the Business of Arts Center in Manitou Springs on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Seventeen couples participated in the ceremony . (Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette)
Pat Idoux, left, and Bryan See show off their Civil Unions License Wednesday morning, May 1, 2013 at the Citizen's Service Center on Garden of the Gods Road. The couple was the first in El Paso County to receive their Civil Union License. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
Kathy Klinker with the El Paso Clerk and Recorder's office shows Paula Beavers, left, and Mary Abbott their new Civil Union License Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
Pat Idoux, left, and Bryan See wait in line at the Clerk and Recorder's office on Garden of the Gods Road Wednesday, May 1, 2013. . The couple was the first in El Paso County to receive their Civil Union License. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette
