Grapevine

By PAUL GRAY/

EIGHT IS NOT ENOUGH. It was not so long ago that Ted Turner found himself allied with Jerry Falwell and other Moral Majority leaders in protesting sex and violence on TV. Then something -- God knows what -- happened. Last year Turner's superstation WTBS banned all religious programming, including Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour. Now antiabortion activists, whom the cable mogul has publicly called "bozos," are furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a "religion for losers," had some harsh words for his own upbringing, saying "Religion was pounded into us so much that I was saved seven or eight times."

With reporting by DAVID ELLIS