The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously voted Thursday to reinstate the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage approved by voters in 2004, saying "we adopt as the amendment’s objective, reserving marriage and its attendant benefits to unions of man and woman." Writing for the seven-judge high court, Justice Robert Benham rejected the argument that the amendment violates the state Constitution’s single-subject rule by outlawing both marriage and civil unions. "It is apparent that the prohibition against recognizing same-sex unions as entitled to the benefits of marriage is not ‘dissimilar and discordant’ to the objective of reserving the status of marriage and its attendant benefits exclusively to unions of man and woman," Benham wrote.