It is appalling to see that society now approves of stars and celebrities who have zero regard for marriage institutions. Little wonder many of them prefer to continue with a single life—out of the fear of staying married and observing the right marital values—while a few others who eventually get married find it effortful to stay married.

People who take pride in being called celebrities and want others to model their lives and careers after them should, as a matter of necessity and responsibility, have a marriage work well for them (if they are married). And if unmarried, the onus is on them to show some moral decency as public figures and exemplary models. Because if they have not even succeeded in being a worthy example in their family of three-four people (a couple and one or two children), how would they succeed in being true models of good values in society?

Please what is starlike in a man or woman who isn’t chaste and disciplined enough to stay married because of pride, achievements and wanton pleasure for reckless lifestyle; yet he or she is chased about with camera here and there?
How do you celebrate stars who do not have enough sense of responsibility to get married and STAY MARRIED? Instead of getting married to set up family life that would be a lasting legacy for them; rather they get married to amass more money from fans and friends and make news headlines. Then after one year or max three years, they are single and searching again. Lord have mercy, celebrity indeed!

And these are the people we expect our children to look up to when they watch their movies and presentations on national TVs. (Shaking my head).

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How do we envy (celebrate) a movie or music star, famous politician or a leading voice in an industry -who can not manage a wife or stay under a man, their reasons notwithstanding, apart from violence (Which is scarcely the case).

Even the Bible makes us understand that: Pastors who do not have a good home but are controlling small or large congregation are victims of internal failure. And believe you me, internal failure is more deadly than external failure/shortcomings.
As God helps us, we must return this generation to back to fundamental family values as the basis for developing true stars and celebrities in society.

Do you wonder why Nigeria our country is backward and in some cases stagnated? Do your check.
Majority of our keys leaders from federal to local governments can not boast of good home training neither do they have a good home themselves to show.
How do you think we will prosper under people who can hardly impact four to seven-member family and are now being saddled with the responsibility of governing millions of diverse people.

The Bible said in 1 Tim. 3:4 & 5, that one who would be elected into even a public office in a constrained unit like the church must be:  “one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?).”

If the church unit which is supposed to be a place of well behaved and spiritually-cultured people requires such a condition for leadership, how much more the society of all manners of individuals with varying characters?

We will keep pouring water into empty baskets if we don’t stop celebrating and enthroning ‘celebrities’ and ‘public officers’ who find it difficult to nurture a good family life while entrenching sound family values first in their own family circle. And until this is done, such can not talk of having the capacity to pass down reputable values to their industry fans and the polity at large.

For instance, I once asked about the wife of a recently aspiring governor in Nigeria, West Africa, and I was told no woman was staying with him as at that time- huh! And he wants to be a governor over a state?
I asked about the family life of another renowned serving Nigerian Senator and I was told- none. But he has true records of battering two of his former wives.
Until recently, in the developed countries, it was a common knowledge that a person can not take up elective political office except they have a good marriage testimony? AND THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

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In some cases, in the same advanced societies- many renowned people have lost their career and stardom due to misbehaviour in the family front or with the opposite sex. If only we these moral standards would be resuscitated in our societies especially among Africans, I am sure we will have a great relief as it were from the grips of people who have nothing to offer but want to take the lead by hook and crook.

Also, it’s high time we began campaigning against celebrities and politicians who disdain family values and marriage sanity while aspiring for public office and recognition.

Anyone who can not maintain the decorum of a good marriage should watch himself or herself instead of trying to make a caricature of it.
They should not think they can eat their cake of untamed sensual and sexual passions as celebrities and still expect to be given accolades where responsible people are seated.

In conclusion, so long as we keep downplaying family values and a good sense of marriage among our so-called celebrities and stars (including high profile politicians)- we will continue to enthrone ‘mediocre’ stars and leaders in our society. And going by this we would scarcely have a sane and progressive society, government and leadership to show for it.

© MAGI

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