�The Washington Times reports that companies such as Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo and Textron have decided not to give any more money to the Scouts. �����

Chase Manhattan says some of the Boy Scouts' tenets may conflict with the company's commitment to "diversity." ������

Merrill Lynch is also reconsidering its annual contribution to the Scouts. Knight Ridder has asked that money it gives to the United Way not be directed to the ������Scouts. ������

An editorial in Friday's Washington Times says tolerance is a virtue touted, but not practiced, by homosexual rights advocates who are campaigning against the Scouts. ������

It says: "Homosexual rights activists are willing to do all they can to ostracize or even destroy the Boy Scouts unless the almost century-old organization both nullifies its pledge to be 'morally straight' and abandons its central mission to teach young boys ... 'true manliness' � a man's responsibility in marriage and fatherhood. ������

"Such principles may sound uproariously quaint and beyond corny to society's�moral relativists, but they remain even now an anchor against civilization's drift into unfettered decadence," the editorial says.