The LACE Grannies say, "Down With Christmas!"
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
December 24, 2009 11:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/12/lace_grannies_say_down_with_christmas.phpThe Ladies Auxiliary for Cultural Enrichment, aka LACE, are at it again. This time they're on YouTube warbling a holiday song titled "Down With Christmas," sung to the tune of a popular carol.
Every year at this time, Edna, Agnes, Maud and Pearl can be found lampooning America's commercially overkilled holiday season. Last year, LACE declared war on fruitcakes --you know the kind. Most YouTubers, young and old, are loving them and their message. But a few humorless reactionary souls miss the point and take furious umbrage at what they see as an all-out attack on religion.
"You either get LACE or you don't," says the brain behind the Grannies, a veteran ad man. "We're not a gay or straight act," he explains, "We're just four old biddies having a ball! The folks who take offense seem to be religious zealots or homophobes, and yet we say and do nothing sexual or blasphemous."
