CNN Host Sparks Outrage With Tweet Proclaiming That 'Law Is the National Religion, Not Your Faith'

CNN host Chris Cuomo sparked controversy on Wednesday morning after sending a series of tweets about religion and the law as it pertains to the ongoing debate over undercover videos that purport to show Planned Parenthood selling fetal body parts.

Cuomo, host of "New Day," responded to a tweet claiming that he showed bias in a recent interview with David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress, the group behind the Planned Parenthood video series.

"My focus is law and fact. Yours is faith and morality," Cuomo wrote. "The law is the national religion, not your faith."

my focus is law and fact. your's is faith and morality. the law is the national religion not your faith https://t.co/vyLzR5sWJ9

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) September 30, 2015

The response from some critics was swift, with New York Post columnist John Podhoretz writing, "This literally may be the dumbest series of words strung together in the history of mankind. Law is not a religion."

When other Twitter users also joined in to question Cuomo's "national religion" claim, he responded by doubling down.

"Exactly. Our set of rules for behavior," he wrote. "The law. Not my faith, not yours."

exactly. our set of rules for behavior. the law. not my faith, not your's. https://t.co/c3e6kUs78x

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo)

September 30, 2015

And he wasn't done there. When a woman named Mary Hansen pushed back, noting that "#InGodWeTrust is in our courtrooms not #InLawWeTrust," Cuomo also had a message for her.

"What's not funny is that you think the law can be subverted by your faith," he wrote. "And that your faith makes you superior."

Oh, please, stop the bs pandering to the religious. The point is clear: the US is ruled by law not religion https://t.co/IPNBihMLcv

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) September 30, 2015

Cuomo later tweeted that he was offering up an "incomplete analogy," and stood by his contention that the "U.S. is ruled by law, not religion."