Denver Post al knight List of rights keeps growing By Al Knight Denver Post Columnist Wednesday, April 30, 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to overrule one of its decisions made just 17 years ago. There are good reasons it should pass up the opportunity. The request, arising from a Texas sodomy case, undermines the notion of stare decisis - a Latin phrase that describes the policy of courts to avoid disturbing settled legal precedent. In the Bowers vs. Hardwick decision in 1986, the nation's highest court said, "The Constitution does not confer a fundamental right upon...