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June 28, 2018 by James Ashley

This year, the company announced it would no longer sell ads to sites that sell "fake" news.WASHINGTON - President Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, has said he would uphold the Constitution's ban on same-sex marriage, but that the court should uphold other laws that do not discriminate against gays and lesbians.

In a letter to Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump said he would uphold the "three-fourths" of the Constitution that protect the rights of gay and lesbian Americans. (The Washington Post)

"In my view, any law that protects the rights of gay and lesbian Americans or those who are LGBT are laws of the land," he wrote. "But I would reverse and overturn any laws that protect those rights and those rights are not based upon any religion or ethnicity or creed."

That would be a big step away from the president's proposed Supreme Court picks, including Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as from his other nominees, the president's pick for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, has said.

The president said the court should consider any law, not just gay-rights legislation, that discriminates against gays and lesbians.

President Trump speaks at the White House on Capitol Hill in Washington in March, which was attended by President Trump and former President Barack Obama. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

"The Constitution is an important document and it is one that is enshrined in the law," he said. "But I would reverse and overturn anything that discriminates against gays and lesbians."

Gorsuch, who is from a well-known conservative religious group, said this week that he believes the decision by the court in Obergefell v. Hodges was a "shocking development."

But he said he didn't think the decision was an easy one, "as we've seen with the very large number of cases we've seen on LGBT cases."

"I'm not saying that this isn't a great thing, but I'm not saying it's not a bad thing," Gorsuch said in response to the president's comments.

But he said he doesn't think Trump's pick for the Supreme Court would "make a big change" in the way the court deals with gay rights.

"I think that this is not a big change," Gorsuch said.

But he said he believes he can live within his constitutional power in ways that would ensure equal