When it comes to parental "choice" in education, what is really meant is indoctrination in one mythology or another.  Whether parents should have the right to fill their kids' heads with superstitious nonsense is as debatable as whether or not parents should have the right to beat them.  And it always kills me that religious people assume that people's "values" only exist because of pre-existing religious dogma.  Values (e.g. not to kill, not to steal) developed out of the need to promote and stabilize living together in a communal environment, and were merely codified by religion after the fact, not created by it.  Also, I never realized that leftists and socialism are inherently antagonistic to religion--lots of socialist countries are full of very devout Catholics.