U.S. Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat serving Montana, just posted to Facebook his support of same-sex marriage. Tester joins Democratic U.S. Senators Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Warner of Virginia, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri, all whom this week declared their support for same-sex marriage.
Tester, a farmer and 56, simply writes:
“Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I’m proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.†-JT
Both Mitt Romney and John McCain won Montana in the past two presidential elections — Clinton was the last Democratic to win the state.
The GOP holds both houses of the Montana legislature.