Conservative commentator Denise McAllister fired for homophobic tweets

Update: Denise McAllister has apologized:

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Days after being at the center of this week’s favorite meme (“You were at my wedding Denise….”), conservative writer Denise McAllister made headlines again on Saturday, this time for homophobic tweets.

McAllister has been fired from her role at the popular conservative website The Federalist for her exchange with journalist, Yashar Ali. Ben Domenech, publisher of The Federalist and husband of Meghan McCain, revealed in a tweet on Sunday that McAllister was terminated by the publication.

The firing stems as a result of McAllister’s attack on Ali, a popular journalist who writes for New York Magazine and HuffPost, who is openly gay. The unpleasant exchange started when Ali responded to a tweet by McAllister about her husband’s rude response to her attempt to speak with him while he watched sports.

McAllister fired back with a series of hateful messages, that have since been deleted. “A gay man commenting on a heterosexual relationship is just. Sad. Pathetic really,” she tweeted.

McAllister continued, “I think @yashar has a crush on me. Maybe I’m making him doubt his love of penis.”

The taunting escalated in a crude, since-deleted tweet about Ali’s sexuality: “Oh so sad. @yashar is lost. He doesn’t know his purpose as a man. He doesn’t know his purpose as a human being. He doesn’t know his purpose as an Individual. So he wallows and tries to find himself in another man’s a******. Sad.”

Although she deleted the messages, McAllister stood by the point she was trying to make. “I have defensed masculinity & have been ridiculed for it. Maligned for loving my husband as a man & celebrating my role as a woman. Yet I’m the devil in the eyes of many. I criticize a gay man who dares to mock my relationship. And I’m the devil. You do see how f***ed up this is,” she added.

Conservative political commentator, Ben Shapiro, apparently told McAllister she was no longer welcome on his show.

“The minute Ben Shapiro DMed me that I was no longer welcome bc I had criticized a gay man the way I did despite the times I’ve been threatened for standing for conservative principles, the right of women to vote contrary to the feminist herd, and support of masculinity, I quit,” she said in a tweet that has also been deleted.

As for Ali, he responded by sharing a touching message about his own journey.

“I was bullied for being Iranian as a kid. But I never felt ashamed of my ethnicity,” said Ali. “I came out on 8/17/2001 & while it hasn’t always been easy, I have always been proud of who I am. I’m Iranian, gay, and Catholic. Perhaps an odd combo, but I wouldn’t change who I am for the world.”

Earlier this week, McAllister dissed The View, leading to a tweet from McCain that launched a hundred memes.

People aren’t laughing at the latest exchange.

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