Mormon, Republican and gay: Politician Nathan Ivie breaks new ground for Utah
PROVO, Utah - He got into his black pickup with the rifle his father gave him when he was boy. He figured it would take him about a half-hour to get to the foothills.
Country music played on the radio, but Nathan Ivie barely heard it. He wore a light jacket. The weather had turned chilly that morning. Orange leaves on trees were beginning to make their last stand.
Ivie wanted it to look like a hunting accident.
When he got to the ridge, it was quiet. He took four rounds and loaded his rifle. He set up a paper target about 150 yards away. Ivie had killed deer in the past to help feed his family. Now he had convinced himself that his own death at age 22 would protect his relatives from a lifetime of shame.
He steadied the rifle, took aim and fired, purposely missing the bull's-eye high and left. The second one, he drew down and fired again. The third round
