{"id":1142,"date":"2026-05-19T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:05:30","slug":"former-pray-away-the-gay-activist-charged-in-child-sex-sting-orange-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Former \u2018pray-away-the-gay\u2019 activist charged in child sex sting, Orange deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The former president of a now-shuttered, anti-LGBTQ organization was arrested Tuesday for seeking sex from an undercover deputy posing as a 14-year-old boy, according the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1140\">Florida\u2019s 2026 Python Challenge begins this summer. What to know.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan Chambers, 54, of Winter Park, was booked in the Orange County Jail without bond on charges of soliciting a minor, transmitting material harmful to minors and unlawful use of a two-way communications device. An affidavit obtained from the Sheriff\u2019s Office describes lewd text messages exchanged with the undercover deputy through the social media app Snapchat and later through text-messaging service Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Chambers led a \u201cpray-away-the-gay\u201d ministry until 2013 when he shut it down and apologized to those he said had been hurt by the organization.<\/p>\n<p>From Feb. 10 through May 4, Chambers is accused of repeatedly seeking to meet with a teenager for sex, according to the affidavit. On Tuesday morning, detectives said they interviewed Chambers during a traffic stop on Aloma Avenue and Strathy Lane, where he confirmed the accounts he was messaging from were his but stopped the interview when he was asked about the conversations.<\/p>\n<p>A Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesperson said investigators are working to find out whether there are other victims. Chambers is slated to appear before a judge on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1138\">Orange school board rejects adding teacher pay hikes to school property tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chambers once helmed the Orlando-based Exodus International as part of the so-called \u201cex-gay\u201d movement and was a fervent proponent of conversion therapy for LGBTQ people. He also served as associate pastor at Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando until 2005.<\/p>\n<p>He previously said he reached out to the ministry at 19 as he sought to \u201cfeel about women the way I felt about men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exodus International closed its doors in 2013 after 37 years and 260 affiliated ministries across North America, with Chambers, a father of two, apologizing to the LGBTQ community for years of \u201cundue suffering and at the hands of the organization and the [Christian] church as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/orlandorelocationreport.com\/?p=1136\">Orange County considering rules for e-bikes and e-scooters, including helmets<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who once ran an Orlando-based anti-gay group that wanted to &#8220;pray away the gay&#8221; has been arrested after police say he solicited sex with a deputy posting as a 14-year-old boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-public-safety","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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