Back in the day you'd get hardcore Christians protesting at roleplaying conventions. Very few generally and incredibly easy to avoid, but they were there.
That was outside the gates, though. What we have now is worse because it's when you get inside, the bit where you're meant to be able to relax and have fun, and then someone decides to make a big deal about something and all of a sudden everyone has to have their pronouns on a badge or make sure the worst roleplayers in the room don't feel 'unsafe' in any way.
The Satanic Panic and associated overreaction to roleplaying in general and D&D in particular was real, but came from people who didn't understand what was actually going on. The current damage being done to gaming is by people who know what's involved, but want it to disavow everything before they started playing and change to suit their needs. The lefty version of being called a scion of Satan is being called a sexist, homophobic, transphobic fascist bigot, and it carries much more weight if someone within the group says it than if someone outside does.
That also involves a lot of gaslighting and cult-like thinking, because as RPGNet displays prominently, you must say everything you ever liked was terrible, that all the fun you had before someone complained was retroactively bad. Orcs were always a stand-in for black people, women who don't game have only ever not done so because of sexism, and everyone would have been playing trans, disabled characters in your high fantasy setting if only they felt safe doing so, like they should do now - the existence of magic notwithstanding. Published versions of games are being subtly edited, and if you don't have a hard copy you won't see how they've changed things; they'll say nothing's changed, though if it had it's a good thing.
Basically, as we've seen time and time again, troons can't handle not being specifically singled out and treated as special. So rule 1 of any gaming book - 'Use what you want and tweak things as needed, it's all about having fun' isn't enough, they have to be specifically mentioned as heckin' cute and valid choices in the game world or they're being left out, and subsequently will feel 'unsafe' bringing their fetishes into every gaming event they can, but now that's a bad thing. And a large majority of other gamers either agree, or feel like they can't disagree in public because being cut out of social groups means they can't play their hobby anymore.
Tl;dr: Evangelicals didn't know what they were really attacking. Troons, genderspecials and dangerhairs do, and know enough to sabotage from within than attack from outside. Chuck in a couple of Geek Social Fallacies and a group of people who generally possess at least some empathy being taken advantage of by people who use it against them, and the iconoclasm and destruction from within is far more dangerous than a few book burnings from without.
