My take is that Connecticut's educated Catholic citizens are smart enough to see that discernment of Catholicism is in order. 

And having done due diligence in discernment found the RCC sorely lacking in whatever area(s) they thought important -- be it sermons, social issues, sex/gender issues, wayward priests and the cover-ups, financial mismanagement, etc. Perhaps even all of that as a bundle with which they no longer want to be associated.

Pray-pay-obey is just not enough for educated, thinking, discerning individuals.