Charles, no they were dishonest. Established precedent that's been all the way up to the Supreme Court several times over the last 50 years at best can be slowly chipped away at around the edges but it's unprecedented that it could simply be dismissed in one ruling. To do so would mean total abandonment of the main undepining in the US legal system, stare decisis, in Federal Courts and declared that cases will now be decided solely upon a polling of each Justice's personal whims and feelings about any given case.
And ignoring long-standing precedent has never been used as a basis to take an established right away. Overuling Plessy expanded the rights of Americans. It did not take them away like this ruling. Gay marriage and the right to access birth control are going to be the next to go.