A whistleblower revealed that Cigna avoids hiring people if they are “too privileged” based on Cigna’s wide-ranging privilege scale that includes race and religion (1). Cigna received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means the company has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (2).

Cigna focuses its charitable donations on specific health areas, but it will not donate to faith-based organizations “unless the activities being funded are accessible to the general public and are not aimed at promoting one religion or faith over any other” (1). Cigna has funded faith-based charities, however. Cigna does not have any rules banning religious organizations from its employee donation matching program (2)(3).

Cigna’s nondiscrimination statement does not protect against viewpoint or religious discrimination (1).

Cigna actively advocated for the Equality Act and has publicly committed to multiple acts of advocacy for the LGBTQ movement (1)(2). Cigna also pushes for critical race theory training and classifying people as “oppressors” and “oppressed” and asking for white people to “cede power” to people of color, according to a whistleblower article (3). The training uses a very broad definition of privilege, which includes religious people, and asks them to “check their privilege” while referring employees to extremist literature to re-educate themselves on class, race, and privilege.

There are no known instances of Cigna contributing corporate funds to ideological organizations or causes hostile to freedom of expression.

Cigna has not used its PAC for ideological purposes (1).