“I think the idea that God would target kids for electrocution because of stances taken by the Grand High Poobahs of their organization, which the boys were not responsible for, nor even remotely able to prevent -— is idiotic.”
2 Samuel 12:
13 ..........Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle
So you have some reason to think the parents of these children were gay?
Or perhaps you’re forgetting the whole Jesus Son of God thing.
We should make a dictinction between God's permissive will (in that he permits, but does not positively will, the evil natural and logical consequences of our sins) and God's positive or direct will (God always wills the good, as Jesus said, "He makes the sun to shine on the good and the bad, and makes His rain to fall on both the just and the unjust. Be ye therefore perfect...")
When the Apostles wanted Jesus to call down fire from heaven on the unbelieving Samaritan towns, Jesus flatly "rebuked them, and said, 'Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.' " (Luke 9:55)
Lightning-strikes against children by an angry Thor --- man, that's not my religion and that's not my God.