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For an understanding of this, one must realize that this was already predicted:

3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion (ἀποστασία - apostasy) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, 12 so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2Thessalonians (RSV) 2)

Pope St Pius X spoke of this general situation over 100 years ago:

…Did We doubt it We should have to regard you, unjustly, as either unconscious or heedless of that sacrilegious war which is now, almost everywhere, stirred up and fomented against God. For in truth, "The nations have raged and the peoples imagined vain things" (Ps 2,1.) against their Creator, so frequent is the cry of the enemies of God: "Depart from us" (Job 21,14). And as might be expected we find extinguished among the majority of men all respect for the Eternal God, and no regard paid in the manifestations of public and private life to the Supreme Will--nay, every effort and every artifice is used to destroy utterly the memory and the knowledge of God.
5 When all this is considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils which are reserved for the last days; and that there may be already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle speaks (2Th 2,3). Such, in truth, is the audacity and the wrath employed everywhere in persecuting religion, in combating the dogmas of the faith, in brazen effort to uproot and destroy all relations between man and the Divinity! While, on the other hand, and this according to the same apostle is the distinguishing mark of Antichrist, man has with infinite temerity put himself in the place of God, raising himself above all that is called God; in such wise that although he cannot utterly extinguish in himself all knowledge of God, he has contemned God's majesty and, as it were, made of the universe a temple wherein he himself is to be adored. "He sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God" (2Th 2,2).
6 Verily no one of sound mind can doubt the issue of this contest between man and the Most High. Man, abusing his liberty, can violate the right and the majesty of the Creator of the Universe; but the victory will ever be with God--nay, defeat is at hand at the moment when man, under the delusion of his triumph, rises up with most audacity. Of this we are assured in the holy books by God Himself. Unmindful, as it were, of His strength and greatness, He "overlooks the sins of men" (Sg 11,24), but swiftly, after these apparent retreats, "awaked like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine" (Ps 77,65), "He shall break the heads of his enemies" (Ps 67,22), that all may know "that God is the king of all the earth" (Ps 66,8), "that the Gentiles may know themselves to be men' (Ps 9,20)…
E Supremi (On the Restoration of All things in Christ) October 4, 1903

So none of this should come as a surprise. We will all be offered a choice: to follow God or to do what seems expedient within the society.

We should pray for those, like Beck, Coulter, and Limbaugh, who have decided that it is better to go with the world on this issue rather than to stand with God.