sbryan said:

in order to conclude that Paul doesn’t like gay people

(2) Actually, I think the first step would be for you to justify not distinguishing between homosexual practice and gay people. Paul, as far as I can tell, doesn’t say anything about the relevance of one’s sexual orientation as a defining characteristic of who that person IS. He seems more inclined to discuss generalized homosexual behavior as one-among-many evidences that the image-bearing purpose of humanity is marred and that creation has been flawed/damaged and in need of serious remedy. I don’t think anyone on this forum is seriously proposing that either God or Paul has anything but the deepest love and hope for new creation in all of humanity, whether practicing homosexual or not.

(1) The quote from the symposium was specifically in reference to the argument that is often heard that people in Paul’s world were simply unaware of the possibility of the kind of committed monogamous homosexual relationship that we now see in our cultural situation, so therefore Paul can’t be presumed to have said anything about it. Well, Plato shows that this is simply not the case. Such relationships were known to exist. It was not intended to prove a position on the issue, just meant to demonstrate that the data for one defense is in fact inaccurate.