According to WFTV in Orlando, former Exodus International president Alan Chambers has been arrested in Florida following an undercover investigation in which detectives posed as a 14-year-old boy online. Authorities allege Chambers engaged in sexually explicit communication and discussed meeting for sexual activity. He faces charges including solicitation of a minor via computer and transmitting harmful material to a minor. The charges remain allegations, and no conviction has been reported.
Chambers is of course well known to us as the face of the ex-gay movement for over a decade, ending in 2013 when he oversaw the closing of Exodus International, once the largest organization holding out the promise of changing from gay to straight. It was an umbrella for hundreds of ministries and reparative therapy groups.
Chambers, who is married with a wife and two adult children, once claimed to have overcome his same-sex desires but later admitted he had always been gay. This is a developing story, more details to come as we get them.