The issue here if I understand things right isn't that these parents are likely to want their children to be willfully ignorant of other religions, but that there is a wish to control the method, manner, timing and presentation of such things to one's children. This is not a bad thing, and is a form of responsible parenting.
For those who don't understand this, think about how children are exposed to sex for the first time. The manner in which it is done can often irrevocably affect a persons attitudes to it for the rest of their lives. A responsible parent usually doesn't want their child to never learn of it, but would rather not have just anybody do the teaching. They might start thinking that porn is normal or some such thing.
Then there's the flip side of this one, too. It's not allowed to instill Christian values into children in school, but now they should learn about other religions? To some, this seems like a double standard (which in some cases it very much is).
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