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Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody slams Jonas Brothers 'promise rings'

Singer thinks squeaky clean band should be having fun

Gary Lightbody believes young men have one thing on their minds

Gary Lightbody doesn't agree with the Jonas Brothers' attitude to sex.

Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas all wear purity rings to symbolise their pledge to remain virgins until they're married.

'When a band takes a stand so vehemently and so opposite of my own views I have to speak up, simply as a concerned citizen,' says Snow Patrol frontman Gary. 'This is not about their music, that I won't comment on. Two words - promise rings?'

Gary, 33, thinks that the silver bands will not prevent the group's natural urges.

'From all of our teenage years onwards, we think of sex a lot,' he writes on his blog.

'You think abstinence is going to cut the mustard? I may know very little, but one thing I'm sure of is that this simply will not work.

'When they are only taught abstinence they are really taught nothing at all. We all have a primal, almost ceaseless urge to mate and a bit of silver on one finger isn't going to stop millions of years of animal evolution.'

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