SACRAMENTO, Calif.--Working mothers across the world are committing a sin, according to Rev. Ralph Drollinger. The Baptist pastor, who leads a Bible study for California state lawmakers, riled the legislators with his condemnation of mothers at work. According to the Associated Press, state lawmakers staged a "domestic revolt," some donning kitchen aprons and scarlet "M's" to protest.

Democratic Sen. Debra Bowen walked barefoot on the Senate floor and brought a toaster and other kitchen wares to her desk.

"Today, I'll be serving up a billion dollars in savings for PG&E customers, identity theft legislation ... along with bacon and eggs, getting my shopping list together and preparing to can," she said.

The offense stemmed from what Drollinger wrote during a Bible lesson in April:

"It is one thing for a mother to work out of her home while her children are in school," wrote Drollinger. "It is quite another matter to have children in the home and live away in Sacramento for four days a week. Whereas the former could be in keeping with the spirit of Proverbs 31, the latter is sinful."

Bowen said the protest was to point out that lawmakers with children "can do as good a job being parents as they can being legislators."

According to AP, about a dozen male and female senators joined the protest, including Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, who presided over the Senate wearing a pink flowered apron.

Drollinger, president of a national Christian evangelical organization called Capitol Ministries, said he was not speaking about single mothers who have to work to support their children, nor was he saying women should not run for office.

But he claimed that the Bible says God has given men and women different roles. "Man's is, primarily, to be a breadwinner, and women's is to be at home nurturing their children," he said.

"I'm all for the female legislators serving our great state with all of their giftedness, in due time," Drollinger said. "If they have children at home, they need to share those gifts with their children. Then after that, as Ecclesiastes says, there is a season that they can serve in the Legislature."

Capitol Ministries' Bible study classes used to meet in the governor's suite of offices, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Catholic, kicked Drollinger out when the pastor referred to Roman Catholicism as a false religion.

Republican legislator Ray Haynes of Murrieta, Calif., told KABC-TV that those who opposed Drollinger's view should "read the Bible and come up with an argument that says he's wrong on his interpretation of the Bible."