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More telling to me is the distribution between those who regularly attend services (regardless of creed) and those who are "cultural ________" (for example, "Christer (Christmas / Easter) Catholics")

So it seems to me that the most productive thing to do would be to get peoples' butts back into church on Sundays.

Pope Leo XIII identified the ultimate aim of secular marriage back in 1880, when he wrote:

16. Yet, owing to the efforts of the archenemy of mankind, there are persons who, thanklessly casting away so many other blessings of redemption, despise also or utterly ignore the restoration of marriage to its original perfection. It is a reproach to some of the ancients that they showed themselves the enemies of marriage in many ways; but in our own age, much more pernicious is the sin of those who would fain pervert utterly the nature of marriage, perfect though it is, and complete in all its details and parts. The chief reason why they act in this way is because very many, imbued with the maxims of a false philosophy and corrupted in morals, judge nothing so unbearable as submission and obedience; and strive with all their might to bring about that not only individual men, but families, also -- indeed, human society itself -- may in haughty pride despise the sovereignty of God.
17. Now, since the family and human society at large spring from marriage, these men will on no account allow matrimony to be the subject of the jurisdiction of the Church. Nay, they endeavor to deprive it of all holiness, and so bring it within the contracted sphere of those rights which, having been instituted by man, are ruled and administered by the civil jurisprudence of the community. Wherefore it necessarily follows that they attribute all power over marriage to civil rulers, and allow none whatever to the Church; and, when the Church exercises any such power, they think that she acts either by favor of the civil authority or to its injury. Now is the time, they say, for the heads of the State to vindicate their rights unflinchingly, and to do their best to settle all that relates to marriage according as to them seems good.
18. Hence are owing civil marriages, commonly so called; hence laws are framed which impose impediments to marriage; hence arise judicial sentences affecting the marriage contract, as to whether or not it have been rightly made. Lastly, all power of prescribing and passing judgment in this class of cases is, as we see, of set purpose denied to the Catholic Church, so that no regard is paid either to her divine power or to her prudent laws. Yet, under these, for so many centuries, have the nations lived on whom the light of civilization shone bright with the wisdom of Christ Jesus.

(the rest of the document, at the link, is worth reading as well)

Marriage, being an icon of the relationship between Christ and His Church, is therefore a logical target for those who would seek to remove Christ from our culture. Back in Pope Leo's day, the goal was to remove the permanence of marriage (a/k/a easing divorce)...therefore removing the perceived sacramental, divine character of marriage. 125 years later, the notion of "homosexual unions" seems like a logical step in the process: to make an utter mockery of the institution itself...

That's why the results of this poll actually make sense to me. Everybody receives a moral formation from someplace. Those who actually regularly go to church would tend to receive formation more in line with that church, while those who don't will receive their formation from the secular media (a media that works in direct collaboration with "the archenemy of mankind")

FWIW.