In the current political scenario a lot of folk would claim this to be a victory and others would claim it to be a loss. I think you are right in says that implications of this go below what our supposed societal practice or religious beliefs dictate.
This in fact has nothing to do with win or loss of a belief system but rather everything to do with how much the State has infiltrated our practices as human beings.
We somehow assume that the State gives us rights. No the State does not gives us rights. We have them when we are born in this world. In fact an argument could be made for rights before the birth and after conception.