{"id":5654,"date":"2012-07-12T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2012-11-14T18:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T02:00:29","slug":"videophoto-of-fr-mel-taylor-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/videophoto-of-fr-mel-taylor-confrontation\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Fr. Mel Taylor Confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This still frame, from a video taken with a cell phone camera on June 3, 2012, shows a man (at right) using a microphone to address the congregation at Father Mel Taylor&#8217;s last mass [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/father-mel-taylor-confronted-at-mass-leaves-bahamas\/\">View<\/a> ] in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The video was shot at Sacred Heart Church on Shirley Street in Nassau, Bahamas on June 3, 2012, at the 8:30 a.m. mass.<\/p>\n<p>According to the man, Fr. Mel Taylor propositioned him on numerous occasions over the course of several months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUYDNxIp-w0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The two men (in the brown shirts) were coming to escort the man out of the church. Between the two men is a woman who was reading announcements after communion.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks after Father Mel Taylor left the Bahamas, Archbishop Patrick Pinder wrote that he, &#8220;knows of no one in the local Catholic ministry against whom any allegations of sexual abuse exist.&#8221; [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/archdiocese-launches-program-to-protect-the-abused\/\">View<\/a> ]\n<p>Video available soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This still frame, from a video taken with a cell phone camera on June 3, 2012, shows a man (at right) using a microphone to address the congregation at Father Mel Taylor&#8217;s last mass [ View ] in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,45,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahamas","category-mel-taylor","category-patrick-pinder","wp-image-borders"],"views":3759,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.behindthepinecurtain.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}