Catholic Priests Want 'Poisonous' One Direction Banned in the Philippines

We're willing to bet that there are plenty of parents out there who wouldn't mind it if mega-hit boy band One Direction was banned. But Catholic priests?

Sure enough, a group of Catholic priests from the Philippines are starting a serious campaign to get One Direction banned in their country.

"Do not lead [the youth in] the wrong direction," said one of the priests in a forum in Manila. "Why admit poisonous influences? There is enough poison in our society... Parents should stop their children from buying the expensive concert tickets of [drug addicts]."

That comment about drug addicts refers to a recently leaked video of the One Direction boys sitting in the back of an SUV in Peru and smoking marijuana. "So here we are, leaving Peru. Joint lit. Happy days," says Louis Tomlinson in the video.

Zayn Malik can also be seen smoking in the video, and the boys make more than one reference to the fact that it is indeed cannabis they're smoking. "One very, very important factor to Zayn's warm up, of course, is Mary J herself," Tomlinson says. "In fact I'm presenting it to him now for some fantastic singing."

Though getting banned in the Philippines certainly wouldn't be great for the band financially, their more immediate concern is the legal implications of the video. Marijuana isn't legal in Peru, though it's not very strictly enforced, either.

In either case, we say that those Catholic priests truly are doing God's work, if only because we're really sick of hearing "Story Of My Life" on the radio.