A councillor who said he hoped no “heathens” were present at a recent meeting has breached rules regarding respect and equality, the National Secular Society has said. The NSS has told Worcestershire County Council’s monitoring officer that Conservative councillor Tony Miller’s remarks during a meeting this month were in breach of the Councillor Code of Conduct. At the start of the meeting, Cllr Miller (pictured, right) objected to the fact that no chaplain was present to hold a prayer, calling this “disrespectful” because council meetings have “always started” with prayers. He said: “We are not heathens. I hope we’re not anyway”. He then invited “those who agree” to stand while he asked God to “bless this meeting” in the “name of our Lord Jesus Christ”. NSS: Councillor’s remarks “directly discriminatory” “Heathen” is defined as an “offensive” term for “a person who has no religion, or who belongs to a religion that is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam”. The NSS told the council Cllr Miller was implying he “hoped nobody present in the meeting was nonreligious …