protection. 20 states plus the district of colombia have legal and civil unions. those ceremonies now carry significance here and elsewhere. >> if they were to break up, they couldn't and they moved on and the other people couldn't enter into civil youns if they choose to do so. >> ken lunberg who opposes civil unions say the lawyers are the biggest ones that win here. >> the thing that troubles me about the civil union law is not the legal structure it sets up for two adults in colorado, it is the replacement of the concept of marriage that we understood to be one man and one woman. >> it gets tricky when a state recognizes a civil union and marriage and one member moves to a state that doesn't recognize