Evangelist Ted Haggard to undergo gay exorcism.

There will be prayer, and perhaps the laying on of hands. There will be counseling and a confession. And there will be advice, confrontation and rebuke from "godly men" appointed to oversee the spiritual "restoration" of the Rev. Ted Haggard.

After tumbling from the pinnacle of the American evangelical movement amid allegations he snorted meth and cavorted with a male prostitute, Haggard has agreed to a rehabilitation process that could last three to five years.

"I see success approximately 50 percent of the time," said H.B. London, vice president for church and clergy at Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian ministry in Colorado Springs. "Guys just wear out and they can no longer subject themselves to the process."

Those who fail "end up selling cars or shoes or something, and being miserable and angry the rest of their lives," London said.

Yeah I would be also be angry if the only job I could get was selling shoes. I am a little confused as to how failing to "get the gay out" would lead to selling shoes, but what do I know about selling shoes? Or, you know, being gay?

I can't help wondering if Haggard's heart does not beat a little faster at the prospect of receiving a "laying on of hands" from the male clergy involved in this "restoration".

So the approach of these backward thinking simpletons is that they can get Haggard to repress his true feelings and inclinations toward men, so that he can rejoin his wife in a strained marriage built on a lie? Hey that sounds like my last marriage.