Many Christians are beginning it take this view.
TfT does not think this view reflects what the Bible teaches. What the world does is down to the world and the main job of the Church is to present the Gospel to the world and to pray that they will turn to Christ (Matthew 28:19). A Christian who makes Jesus Lord of his/her life should follow the teaching in the Bible (James 1:22) and understand that God regards gay lifestyles and relationships as sinful.
Many gay people think this is what all Christians think. They are wrong. Some Christians have thought this in the past, and some still do, but they are becoming fewer and fewer. Even Jesus, himself sexually pure, refused to condemn the woman who was found to be sexually immoral (John 8:11). Many of these Christians are at last realising this view is wrong and not Christ-like at all and are moving to View 1 or View 3.*
Little is known about why gay feelings develop in people (despite a wide variety of claims). But just because we feel something, or are attracted to someone, does not mean that we are compelled to put that into action. We have choices and we have responsibilities to ourselves and to others. All of us, in many ways, and at many times, restrain our feelings and make good choices about what we do with our feelings and impulses.
Many people who feel same-sex attractions decide to adopt "gay" as their identity. It may not feel like they are choosing, but in reality they are making a choice to publically declare they "are gay" and to live a lifestyle that reflects that. However, there are many people (especially many Christians) who choose to identify as "in Christ" (2 Cor 5:17), and give their identity as a Christian a higher priority than any sexual attractions they may feel. They choose to follow God's Word rather than sexual feelings. This is not easy, but Jesus never said the Christian life would be easy. In fact He said, "if anyone would follow me he must deny himself and take up his cross" (Mark 8:34). If we believe that gay relationships are sinful, no matter what we feel, or whatever the cost, we should not participate in them.
At TfT, we hold to View 3, which has a biblical balance between truth and love (Ephesians 4:15).
Nonsense, the Biblical view is that even homosexual attraction is a vile and sinful affection that must be mortified.
Should Christian thieves or murderers parade their vile desires? Then no more so should 'Christian gays' or 'Christian celibate gays' as TFT terms them.
*Please note the sinful confusion in attitude 2, of our view of the vilness of homosexuality and homosexual desires and a concern for homosexuals who may be beginning to seek repentance and deliverance from that snare.
'For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
And
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error
which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things
which are not convenient;'
Homosexual affection is ranked with 'unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiting, hatred of God, being despiteful, proud, or boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, being without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful' It is a vile and odious sin, all too often accompanied by the same evil tendency shown in these other traits of the flesh, 'knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.'
p.135 (h/t PN)