“You won’t repent of your rebellion that brought His wrath on you in this incurable scourge, so expect more & worse! #red.”Īs a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas, Phelps-Roper believed that AIDS was a curse sent by God. “Thank God for AIDS!” she tweeted that morning. Megan Phelps-Roper, a twenty-three-year-old legal assistant, seized the opportunity. On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if users employed the hashtag #red, their tweets would appear highlighted in red.
