Honestly, he’s not even a real person anymore.  This is just one slightly less-fantastic step away from “You got sick because God is punishing you for your sins.”  That kind of thinking was popular during the Middle Ages, you know?

Also, in that vein, he’d still have to say that about anyone who got cancer— they used a cell phone, they drank soda with artificial sweeteners, they went out in the sun, they lived in a city with air pollution, they worked in a shipyard with asbestos, whatever.  Poor life choices?  AGH.  That’s like that guy from the American Family Association saying (yesterday?) that HIV didn’t cause AIDS, gay sex caused AIDS.  Idiots.