by Rex Wockner
LGBT people are much more likely than straight people to oppose Arizona's controversial new law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to a Harris Interactive poll.
The statute, enacted in April, requires police to check an individual's immigration status anytime an officer suspects the individual may be in the U.S. illegally.
Sixty-three percent of LGBT Americans oppose the law and 45 percent of LGBT Americans strongly oppose it.
However, 60 percent of straight people support the law and 41 percent support it strongly.
The national survey of 2,698 U.S. adults, of whom 335 were LGBT, was conducted online between May 10 and 17.
The poll also found that, because of the immigration law, 43 percent of LGBT respondents are less likely to vacation in Arizona and 36 percent are less likely to attend a convention there.
According to Harris: "Harris Interactive avoids the words 'margin of error' as they are misleading. … The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in the Harris Interactive panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated."
