No, we didn't.
now they want to be our equals and peers.
We simply ask for the common courtesy to let us define our own beliefs - that we are followers of Jesus Christ. We may not be orthodox or mainstream Christians, but we are Christians.
There is the rub though isn't it. You are asking to define what has already been defined by Christendom and rejected by the LDS. Christ is a specific person defined in a specific way belonging to a particular group of people who despite some often serious differences agree on the main points of the faith.
That is what makes this particularly egregious. It is as if the Jews all of the sudden want to be called Christian because while not being the savior Jesus was a great Rabbi.