Somehow a flyer for this got into my mailbox. I can't tell if it's real or not. Can you?
I have removed specific corporate names and places just in case it's a fake, but even if it is a fake, anyone want to bet that something like this isn't being thought about, right now, by some rightwing legal sharpie?
Memo to Corporate Compliance Officers: Sign up now for X’s
Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Corporate Healthcare
Republican President and Congressional majority may open door to vast savings on healthcare costs: How to Profit From Legislative Changes and Lobby For Them
Brochure continues below:
1. Legislative Change Alert:
Though the outcome of November’s elections is still in doubt, now is the time to prepare your company to take advantage of possible changes in healthcare coverage. Recent votes by the Republican minority in the US Senate and by the Republican House majority as well as positions taken by Republican presidential hopefuls indicate a serious intent to make healthcare coverage subject to religious objections in healthcare provided by firms. With unlimited funds made available by recent Supreme Court decisions, corporate-friendly Republicans are likely to hold their House majority and take the Senate. If new hiring, wage increases and thus economic recovery can be stalled a little longer, Republicans stand a good chance of retaking the White House as well. (See details of our earlier conference, Supporting the Republican Economic Agenda on our website: legalbeagle.com) But even so, legislation is likely to require proof of the sincerity of such religious objections on the part of employers, so now is the time to take the following steps to support your firm’s case for not providing healthcare at all.
2. Legislative Provisions to Ensure:
The little known but long extant Church of Christ, Scientists (Christian Science) has a decades long record of forbidding any healthcare other than prayer to its members. Prayer is considerably cheaper than healthcare in the first place, and has the added benefit once adopted of no annual increase in costs going forward. Building a corporate profile among your board and management members as sincere Christian Scientists would allow your firm to, in good conscience, drop all healthcare coverage for employees.
It is crucial now to take steps to ensure that the first amendment right being claimed by Republicans as covering conscience-based opt outs for healthcare coverage also applies to Christian Science. However, opponents will quickly identify this option and seek to close it, perhaps by stipulating that religious based opt outs be limited to religions with a certain time in existence or number of adherents, thus closing the door to new religions arising specifically tailored to prohibit non-prayer based healthcare. A pro-Christian Science corporate stance alone will be insufficient to promote and protect your interests, so this conference will also cover how to organize and lobby for inclusion of Christian Science in the coming legislation.
3. Preparing your legal staff to brief corporate officers and lobbyists:
Legal counsel in your firm need to know how to advise your representatives to lobby state and national representatives in properly protecting religious freedom in this new area of application. Legal counsel in your firm also need to know how to prepare your board and upper management to support your claim that religious belief prevents your firm providing any healthcare other than that permitted by Christian Science. This is why you need to attend, and you need to bring key staff and corporate members to this conference.
The Freedom of Conscience and Corporate Healthcare conference will present panels on the following:
A. What is Christian Science?
B. How to schedule “conversion” to Christian Science by board and management members
C. Introducing Christian Science to employees now
D. Proving the power of prayer and positive thinking
E. Organizing religious leaders into state and community “religious freedom” lobbies bringing business and faith together to influence politics
F. Identifying candidates sympathetic to the superiority of religious freedom over healthcare
G. Dealing with the issue of Jesus healing the sick (hint: he didn’t use surgery or medicine)
H. How to prove religious sincerity without imperiling you and your family’s health
This final panel will show you how to make sure you and your family have access to full medical care abroad in secret, so your corporate stance against healthcare will never be threatened by proof you breached your own religious principles.
Sign up now, and enjoy the luxurious accommodations at XX Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference also has the additional advantage of taking place in a state where coed corporate entertainment is legal and may be written off as a business expense. An optional panel is available at the conference wherein participants will discuss starting a new religion based on sexual healing via open marriage and multiple partnerships.