Sarah Mirk's article missed the point. The true threat to Project Grow is not the lawsuit she cites, but rather the reductive and polarizing viewpoint offered by Ms. Mirk herself. Alternative employment is not an "alternate to work." It is work. Project Grow does much more to promote workplace equality than could any lawsuit. People there work tirelessly to create a space that allows a spectrum of people to nourish their social and marketable skills. As a longtime volunteer, I am constantly blown away by the extent of its egalitarianism. Ms. Mirk unfortunately missed this. She victimized Project Grow (unfairly, since this lawsuit will likely have no effect on Project Grow's ineluctable march forward), and therefore victimized its workers. While Oregon certainly must do more to promote workplace equality, so too must the Mercury. I hope to one day read in your pages an article that sincerely evaluates the obstacles (both financial and societal) that face organizations like Project Grow.