Well, I repeat: Paul was wrong. And DOMA may be the law of the land, but DOMA is wrong.

I refer you to the case of Supreme Court Lewis Powell, who cast the deciding vote in Bowers v. Hardwick. He eventually admitted that he had been wrong and seventeen years later the Supreme Court caught up with him when it overturned Bowers v. Hardwick in Lawrence v. Texas.

Paul was an essentially fair person, and if he had lived long enough, I hope he would have realized that bigotry is bigotry and he would have changed his mind.