Wow, talk about sour grapes. Reacting to Monday’s massive, 7-2 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the Christian bakers with Masterpiece Cakeshop, CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin went into full-blown panic mode, claiming that “[t]his is certainly an invitation to people who discriminate against gay people” and opens the door to Jim Crow-like discrimination against interracial and interfaith couples.

From the moment morning CNN Newsroom anchor Poppy Harlow gave Toobin the floor to comment, he was off and running, first lamenting that “this is an enormous defeat for the gay rights movement” in that there’s now a question of whether there’s “limits in terms of religious people when they're allowed to discriminate.”

Toobin correctly noted that the Court essentially ruled that, if they had gone the other way, it would be like “forcing a novelist to write a novel” or “a painter to paint a painting.” However, he was otherwise diving headfirst into the wide world of hypotheticals (click “expand” to read more):

Here we have a cake baker who says I don't want to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. Well, what about the restaurant owner who says I don't want to seat a gay couple because it violates my religious principles? What about a hotel owner who says I don't want to rent a room to a gay couple because it violates my religious principles....That’s the limiting principle that the Court is applying here because the — the Court said, you know, cake baking is such a unique creative process that the government can't force someone to violate their conscience. The question is, what is the limiting principle there and there will be future cases. This is certainly an invitation to people who discriminate against gay people from barring them from their businesses.

Harlow did an admirable job sticking to the case and the opinion of the Court, but that didn’t stop Toobin from flying off the rails. He footnoted the notion that “no one should be hostile to people's religious beliefs,” but there’s the rights of gay people too.

Toobin snidely opined that, in America, “we also have a principle...of discrimination against gay people” and thus this case could open the door to discrimination against interrcial and interfaith couples by businesses like cakeshops:

I mean, of discrimination against gay people and, again, you have to search for the limiting principles. There are religions that hold that interracial marriages are a violation of God’s law. So — so can you refuse to bake a cake for an interracial couple? Can you refuse to bake a cake for two people of different religions who are marrying each other? I mean, there are all sorts of religious principles that are against the laws on the books.

A few minutes later, he again wildly speculated that he can foresee Jim Crow-like situations where gays are denied a hotel room or service at a restaurant (again, click “expand”):

[B]ut it is also an invitation to more cases. It is an invitation to religious people to say, well, I don't want you in — I don't want you to do your wedding cake business. I don't want your restaurant business. I don't want your hotel business. I don't want you in my store. I don't want you and, you know, that — we're going to see more cases and obviously, Kennedy is aware of the problem that gay people will be subjected to indignity and dignity is a favorite word of Justice Kennedy’s, something he's very concerned about. But, you know, it is also — dignity is a very vague and elastic concept[.]

To see the relevant transcript from June 4's CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow, click “expand.”