“17-year-old gay Catholic...”
Is that similar to a round square?
its a plant in the audience; most likely an actor getting paid for his time...
Pope Benedict, the "Panzer Pope," nailed it when he said (paraphrasing) that the worst problem of this time is RELATIVE MORALITY.
People have so lost their way that they talk themselves into believing that wrong is right. GONE are all the traditional absolutes.
Of course the Catholic Church is anathema to those folks. The Church is the "home," so to speak, of moral absolutes.
He should get in line to become a priest.
Not necessarily. From what we know via this article, the kid didn't say he was having sex with guys, or even that he intended to. He might have meant he just finds that his sense of sexual attraction is drawn to guys, not girls. He has noticed that that's te way his attentions flow.
He may end up being a faithful chaste and celibate Catholic like the workshop speaker, Ron Belgau. His path may not be easy; it may require a lot of self-denial; but we're all called to be saints.