Christians: do you believe the number of gay people has increased or the percentage is the same, but now gay people can be openly gay?

Yes, the LGBT population keeps increasing. In the 1990s, they said it was 2 percent. In the 2000s they said 4 percent. 5 years ago, they said 8 percent. Now it has reached 10-15 percent. Some surveys by GLAAD show 20 percent of the millennials identifying as LGBT. Google “Survey: 20 Percent of Millennials Identify as LGBTQ”

No society can survive at this rate.

Their argument is “20 percent of the people were always LGBT throughout history . But they feel free to come out now”. That seems to be the rationalization for every increase in the number of people reporting non-heterosexual attraction. The problem is that this argument is not testable and therefore not science. Nobody knows the % of LGBT in the closet 50 years ago. If you don’t know that number, how can you say these many people were in the closet before?

They treat “born that way” as dogma. But even scientists don’t know what exactly causes homosexuality. The best they have come up with is complex interactions of genetic, biological, and environmental factors.

The culture, media (TV, movies, etc), and the environment a child is raised also play a huge role in the development of sexual orientation.

Adult children of lesbian parents less likely to identify as straight, study finds

They're "significantly more likely to report same-sex attraction, sexual minority identity, and same-sex experience" than the general population.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna989976

So it is certainly possible that repeated exposure of young children to the idea that they need to "discover" and “explore “ their sexual orientation could be allowing neural pathways of non-heterosexual orientation to be reinforced that would otherwise have naturally been pruned away during development. Yes, all along there have likely been people who were primarily attracted to others of their sex, but the fact that such people have likely always been a part of human populations tells us nothing about the intrinsic distribution of the total population between heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality.

People are more willing to admit having the disorder, now that it is more accepted by much of society.

Homosexuality has certainly increased.

When you indulge your passions then they take over, become worse and increase.

Increased

because of a societal shift that views it as morally acceptable

just as other, similar immoral behaviors have increased

for the very same reasons.

See:

- divorce

- fornication (and including: increasing among younger and younger people)

- neglect of basic religious practices

etc.

The proportion of gays is probably the same as it has always been; but more gays will publicly acknowledge their orientation than they once did.

Paul says in latter days men will deny God power. So they used science as an excuse not follow Christ or God teachings. Christ warns against this and the Bible again in Romans 1. It will be like the days of lot

The second one.

No, there's no increase.  Gay people are just free to be who they are now.

Stats vary but a median figure is that 2-4% of US adults presently identify as LGBT.

An overwhelming share of America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults (92%) say society has become more accepting of them in the past decade and an equal number expect it to grow even more accepting in the decade ahead. They attribute the changes to a variety of factors, from people knowing and interacting with someone who is LGBT, to advocacy on their behalf by high-profile public figures, to LGBT adults raising families.1

IMHO, the latter.