he has the right to say what he wants, but I have the right to say he's an asshole.

Yep. He's an a-hole. Did you read the post Justin Bourne had in his own blog? He called out one of Elliotte Friedman's 30 Thoughts (and I do love his 30 Thoughts normally).

Argh, and I forgot to add--it's unconfirmed, but someone mentioned it had been Justin Bourne's It's time to end the use of gay slurs in hockey article that inspired Brendan Burke to come out in the first place, apparently?