{"id":117178,"date":"2014-10-15T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/same-sex-couple-gets-license\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:33:12","slug":"same-sex-couple-gets-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/same-sex-couple-gets-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex couple gets license"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d00d0910-6caa-421f-9dfe-1362118279f6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d00d0910-6caa-421f-9dfe-1362118279f6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d00d0910-6caa-421f-9dfe-1362118279f6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d00d0910-6caa-421f-9dfe-1362118279f6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"388\" height=\"565\" alt=\"Sandra Culpepper and Glynis Verrazzano show off their marriage license Thursday after getting a marriage license from Montezuma County.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Sandra Culpepper and Glynis Verrazzano show off their marriage license Thursday after getting a marriage license from Montezuma County.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Mancos Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After being together for 23 years, Glynis Verrazzano and Sandra Culpepper, were excited Thursday morning with a single piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is awesome. This is so cool,\u201d Verrazzano said as she unfolded a paper that read \u201cMarriage License State of Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis says it all right here,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 7, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers ordered all Colorado clerks to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to hear appeals regarding states\u2019 marriage bans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are no longer second-class citizens,\u201d Culpepper said.<\/p>\n<p>On July 20, 2013, the y received a \u201cCivil Union License\u201d from Montezuma County after a wedding ceremony on their property near Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>But the civil union license, Verrazzano said, only treated the couple as a married couple in Colorado. They still were not able to file federal taxes together, or adopt children together or visit each other in a hospital in states that didn\u2019t recognize their union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means we have all the rights as any married couple now,\u201d Verrazzano said.<\/p>\n<p>The couple has raised three children, and now that they\u2019re married, they can both be treated as legal guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Verrazzano is a retired fire captain. Culpepper is a retired homicide detective. Both are from North Carolina. The couple have lived in Montezuma County for five years.<\/p>\n<p>The two plan on a big honeymoon next year.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, one other couple had received a same-sex marriage license, according to the Montezuma County Clerk\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>together for 23 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-117178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117178"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=117178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}