Tabitha, Lydia and the menace of female breadwinners threatening our ‘complementary relationships’

Acts 9:36-42 (according to Erick Erickson):

Now in Joppa there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time she became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, who heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the request, “Please come to us without delay.”

So Peter got up and went with them; and when he arrived, they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was with them.

Peter put all of them outside, saying “Having a woman as primary bread winner is bad for kids and bad for marriage. It’s troubling and shows something going terribly wrong in the church.”

Acts 16:14-15 (according to Erick Erickson):

A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul.

And Paul said unto her: “Liberals who defend women working and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology — when you look at the natural world — the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We’re lost the ability to have complementary relationships … and it’s tearing us apart.”

Romans 16:1-2 (according to Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi)

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church at Cenchreae. This is why our schools are mediocre. Both parents started working. The mom got in the workplace.