A veteran surgeon in Minnesota has lost his job after he advocated at a school board meeting parents’ right to opt their children out of mask mandates. Hundreds of people on Monday rallied in Fergus Falls, a west-central Minnesota town, in support of Dr. Jeffrey Horak, who has worked at local Lake Region Healthcare for 16 years until last week, when the medical group that owns the facility fired him. Horak spoke to attendees, some of whom held up signs with slogans such as “No to Cancel Culture” and “Parents Should Choose,” saying that he has received many supportive messages from the community since his firing. “At the request of parents in this community, as a professional physician, I spoke to the Fergus Falls school board meeting,” Horak told the crowd. “I shared my expertise. Nine days later, I was asked to resign or be terminated. I choose to be …