Well, even though I am not a literalist, I have cast my ballot with "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof,
for correction, for training in righteousness." About the inspiration, I also tend to quote Paul:

1 Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we received mercy, we do not lose heart, 2 but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves ...

We and even the saints and apostles must receive the divine light into our earthen selves, so scripture can have scientific and other perceptual limitations, including cultural preconceptions, while still being inspired by God.

Therefore, I would be VERY surprised if Paul himself had an understanding of, or culturally transcendent (since he was Jewish) tolerance of, gay love. But nonetheless, he spoke amazingly well and righteously, specifying that his beef, and God's, was with heterosexuals who turned against their own nature and against the wives God gave them, and who went into same-sex sex as an exploitative pleasure. I say 'exploitative' because of Paul's later use of the terms arsenokoitai and malakoi (sodomites and catamites in the only half-accurate translation, KJV), which imply the Moroccan-like system of many hetero fuck-ers (which is what koitai literally means) and relatively few man- or boy-whore fuck-ees (malakoi literally meaning the pliable, the soft, the weak, the passive, a concept of whorish self-abnegation that goes well beyond just being "the bottom" as we would now say.)

The credit for this clarity goes not to Paul alone but also to the holy spirit working with him and in him. I am not a blind follower of Paul and wouldn't tell any slaves I met -- for example in Sudan -- to just go on obeying their masters as a divine order. But I think there were at least spiritually sound TEMPORARY reasons for his more controversial utterances.