KITSAP COUNTY, Wash. -- The people of Port Orchard showed up by the hundreds on Friday to pay tribute to a native son who was killed in Afghanistan.

Those gathered lined the streets and chanted "USA, USA!" and for good reason.

You see, there's a small Kansas church that believes war and dead soldiers are God's punishment for a nation of sinners. Rumors of a visit by those churchgoers brought the townspeople out with flags waving and horns sounding.

Port Orchard wants no doubts about where its heart is.

"I wanted this man buried in peace without a lot of fools hassling the family," said Loraine Magee.

Johnny Walls fought in Iraq and died in Afghanistan. He was 41.

To most in Port Orchard, he's a hero. That's why the flags waved and why some even wore them proudly.

"Hey, I'm a patriot. I'm an American. And we are not going to let these people do what they are doing to our dead soldiers," said Carl Brashar.

Four people and one child from Topeka, Kansas made up the group Brashar referred to as "these people." They carried signs reading "soldiers die, God laughs" and "pray for more dead kids."

"When you put on a uniform of a fag-enabling country, you are spitting in God's face," said Sara Phelps.

The group's messages left the townspeople in disgust.

"How can anyone think anything but that's a sick statement by a sick person, by a sick church?"

And the people of Port Orchard responded by singing the national anthem.

In Port Orchard on Friday, there were two God.

"God is your enemy, you spat in his face," Phelps yelled.

"God is a forgiving God and He will bless us all in the end," a local resident responded.

Walls' family had no comment on the events other that to say "good" when told the townspeople outnumbered the Kansas protesters 50 to 1.