Gay slurs and hockey banter: Time to take a stand?

Justin Bourne is the son of New York Islanders great Bob Bourne and a former minor league player who has transitioned into one of the more interesting hockey columnists on the Web. His opinion piece for USA Today called "It's time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey" is going to get some deserved attention.Bourne discusses how he contributed to "hockey's culture of homophobia and prejudice against gays" as a player; the lack of any openly gay male players in professional hockey; and concludes that "it's time to acknowledge we've been unfair to the gay community, that the culture of our sport can be misogynistic, homophobic and cruel."From USA Today:There hasn't been progress on this issue for years. When I ran the idea for this column by my uncle, a sportswriter and editor, he mentioned a piece he wrote 20 years ago after the general manager of a major junior hockey team in Canada said something like: "We don't have any we...