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If God said that torturing small children for the fun of it was morally acceptable, he would clearly be wrong. I can't really offer any arguments as to why this is true, but it certainly seems to be from my perspective.
Two further points:
The discussion of morality and God occurs in Plato's dialogue Meno. The question is actually about "the pious", but Socrates uses this word to mean "loved by the gods", so this discussion is in the Platonic spirit.
Morality most certainly is one of Plato's Forms: it is called "the Good".
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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