“Choosing a religious phone is one way a person who gives high salience to his or her religious identity can assert that importance in a public way,” says William Swatos, the executive director of the Religious Research Association in Galva, Ill.
So says a March 27, 2006 Wall Street Journal article about the so-called kosher telephone offered by MIRS Communications.
(Thanks to Jason Ybarra for bringing this to our attention.)