I guess handshake thing is to avoid scandals per se.
But going by Galatians 5:13-26. The sin lies in mental corruptive nature of Acts of Sin. Vs the more preferable way to live as Christians in “Galatians 5:22-23” which is Fruits of the Spirit, the innocent part that is about living without being a slave to the destructive part of primitive mind.
I guess part of the problem is two things
Hyperfocused cultural issues around Homosexuals
1: Identitarian Maxism, which do kinda tend to bash Christianity as a way to reach a Political goal of replacing Christianity with that Identitarian movement
2: Christian groups who have a hyperfocused baiting and culture war around homosexuals, the Gen X generation around Culture wars.
So the issue lies with the hyper focusing issues around this? Rather than just to work with people and recognizing it, working with it. Basically to recognize they are humans, and humans are flawed. And that way, is to work on their way with a relationship with God. And avoid hyper focused cultural wars, because they sensationalize the issue into a personal one?
But whats your view? Am i wrong?
People tend to skip around the subject of homosexuality because no-one wants to say that it is a disordered state of existing as there would be war from pro-choice types. All of those people, guaranteed, have jumped (their choice to do so) into the ‘lifestyle’ because on some level they felt inadequate. So, there is a softly-softly approach to related discussions.
LGB started with the PRIDE movement in the form of rallies but now the subject has widened to politics because of certain governments (namely, the UK) which seek to effeminize people during the rise of communism (currently in the form of socialist policy) and also because pharmaceutical companies will make great money for afore-mentioned governments which are attempting to gain policy-driven power over private and PLC related commerce.
And because its ‘span’ has widened, so every area of society plays up to it so as to remain in government ‘good books’, i.e. for an easier life. The Church knows and recognises and has written that homosexuality is disordered and so unnatural yet largely because of protestant religions and the rise of socialism (no thanks, either, to Freedom of Expression and which is totalitarian legislation and not comparable with Freedom of Speech and which is based on Justice) everyone pretends that we must be ‘tolerant’ of the subject. I don’t believe so. We’re not supposed to judge others, while you don’t have to accept wrong-doing as okay. The difference in communal growth and deterioration is education and miseducation. One step worse, is socialist indoctrination, and this is what globalism (global socialism) has as its aim, but which is more severely exacted within those individual connected totalitarian countries…such as the UK.
My guess is that in New Testament times, people, even men, did kiss each other more (on the cheek?). Nowadays, in our culture, I see kissing on the lips as limited to romantic partners, and kissing on the cheek is for family members or close friends of the opposite sex, although in some families, people of the opposite sex do kiss on the lips, though I think it’s rare.
Its less about Protestantism, and more about ideas stemming from the French Revolution.
A seedy grape-drinking bunch, those French. Though I would suggest that protestants do tend to sway in the tickety-boo-pastor, direction.
I have a funny story about this. My Grandma hauled the Amish and she got to attend one of their Church Services one time. It was in a barn and the women sat on one side and the men sat on the other. They sat my Southern Baptist Grandma in the middle 
She was taken aback when the men would greet on another by kissing each other on the lips!
When everyone got in the van afterwards, my Grandma very bluntly asked with her southern accent, “Why do y’all do thaat?!” Do what? “Kiss each other on the lips!” They explained to her that it is called the “brotherly kiss” and it is in the Bible (Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:26).
I come from German heritage and I don’t even like to hug people, let alone any sort of P.D.A. (public display of affection)!
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