Among the critics of the Trump administration policy that is separating children from their parents are 600 members of the United Methodist Church — the same congregation where Attorney General Jeff Sessions worships.

Churchgoers and church leaders signed onto a letter on Monday accusing Sessions, who announced the “zero tolerance” policy in April, of violating the denomination’s Book of Discipline.

They accuse him of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of the United Methodist Church.

The doctrine refers to Sessions’ “misuse” of Romans 13 about obeying the government because it is ordained by God to defend the policy.

The letter also notes that Sessions belongs to the Ashland Place United Methodist Church in Mobile, Ala.

“While other individuals and areas of the federal government are implicated in each of these examples, Mr. Sessions — as a long-term United Methodist in a tremendously powerful, public position — is particularly accountable to us, his church,” the letter said. “He is ours, and we are his. As his denomination, we have an ethical obligation to speak boldly when one of our members is engaged in causing significant harm in matters contrary to the Discipline on the global stage.”

A report by the United Methodist Church said some individual worshipers have reached out to Sessions’ pastor.

The Rev. Valerie Nagel Vogt, associate pastor of Travis Park United Methodist Church in San Antonio, Texas, sent a letter on June 15 hoping to spark a discussion between Sessions and his pastor.

“I believe it is in community that we learn, grow and become more like Jesus,” she said. “There is abounding grace and an ongoing need for all of us who claim to follow Jesus to ask for forgiveness.”

​The Book of Discipline allows for a church trial and the expulsion of a lay member, but church leadership said that’s unlikely to happen.