text: Paul wrote before the Gospels.  Actually, there was Paul and pseudo-Paul.  Paul was of the belief, common to the early Church, that Jesus would return in glory just any day now (the more Pius Trads and Protestant sects still do and you can see it by how they deal with sin).  Paul preferred no sex by anyone at one point, but that was delusion, not inspiration.  Note that while he condemned Homosexuality in Romans 1, it was not new teaching and he basically said that theocracies had no open homosexuality but Roman society did because there was no moral government.  That is a truism, not a condemnation.  For him, as a Rabbi, there was no question, so he simply carries the error of the Babylonian Rebi who wrote Leviticus.  Note that in Romans 2 he said all were guilty of the same sins and must find Christ.  He also helped lead the movement to dump all of the food rules in Leviticus, so he believed in doctrinal maleability.