ساندی در تمام طول زندگی، یک جمهوری‌خواه ماند و از دیدگاه‌های سیاسی و اجتماعی اصلی غرب میانه خود حمایت می‌کرد: فردگرایی، رقابت، انضباط شخصی، و مخالفت با مقررات دولتی.Martin, 126–127. نویسندگانی مانند سینکلر لوئیس،Sinclair Lewis' novel "Babbitt" includes a character named Mike Monday, "the distinguished evangelist, the best-known Protestant pontiff in America...As a prize-fighter he gained nothing but his crooked nose, his celebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable." In his novel, a visit by Monday is opposed by "certain Episcopalian and Congregationalist ministers", whom Monday calls "a bunch of gospel-pushers with dish-water instead of blood, a gang of squealers that need more dust on the knees of their pants and more hair on their skinny old chests." Lewis's "Elmer Gantry" is a novel about an evangelist with more than a passing resemblance to Sunday. (Sunday in turn referred to Lewis as a member of "Satan's cohort.") Elmer Gantry study guide , bookrags.com. هنری ام تیکنرR. A. Bruns, "Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism" (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 194–195. و جان رید ساندی را ابزاری برای سوداگری می‌دانستند و وی را مورد حمله و انتقاد قرار دادند و کارل سندبرگ شاعر آمریکایی او را «لاف‌زن» و «چرندگو و ریاکار» نامید.McLoughlin, 223. John Reed, "Back of Sunday", "Metropolitan Magazine" (May 1915), 10. Carl Sandburg, "To Billy Sunday" , 1915. Sandburg wrote, "You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist and calling us all dam fools so fierce the froth slobbers over your lips...always blabbing we're all going to hell straight off and you know all about it...Go ahead and bust all the chairs you want to. Smash a whole wagon load of furniture at every performance. Turn sixty somersaults and stand on your nutty head. If it wasn't for the way you scare the women and kids I'd feel sorry for you and pass the hat. I like to watch a good four-flusher work, but not when he starts people puking and calling for the doctors." Sunday also appears in some modern fiction, both as an historical touchstone and as a metaphorical figure. For example, John Jakes inserts a mention of Sunday in "Homeland" , his historical novel about Chicago; and Sunday's life is employed metaphorically in Rod Jones' novel "Billy Sunday". Jerry Garcia also referred to Billy Sunday in the Grateful Dead song, "Ramble On Rose." با این وجود، ساندی در برخی مسائل در کنار ترقی خواهان قرار گرفت. به عنوان مثال، او کار کردن کودکان را محکوم کرد"Men who will gladly draw their check for $10,000 and give it a child's hospital see nothing ridiculous in the fact that the $10,000 for the child's hospital came of out of $200,000 made from a system of child labor which crushes more children in one year than the hospital will heal in ten." Quoted in McLoughlin, 145. و از اصلاحات اجتماعی و حق رأی زنانFirstenberger, 66–68; McLoughlin, 140–143. حمایت کرد. ساندی سرمایه‌دارانی را محکوم کرد که «زندگی شخصی‌شان خوب، اما زندگی اجتماعی‌شان بسیار بد است» و همچنین کسانی که «جیب یک شخص خاصی را نمی‌زنند» اما «بی‌تردید جیب هشتاد میلیون مردم را با رانت و انحصار یا مزیت تجاری خود خالی می‌کنند».Quoted in McLoughlin, 144–45. با این حال، او مخالف اصلاح نژاد، مهاجرت ساکنان جنوب و شرق اروپا به آمریکاMcLoughlin, 146–48. و آموزش فرگشت بود.Although Sunday was a firm creationist, he believed that the seven days of creation were indeterminate periods and not literal 24-hour days. As proof Sunday quoted 2 Peter 3:8 that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." "Nuts for Skeptics to Crack", (sermon) May 24, 1917, "Papers of William and Helen Sunday", Reel 11. William Jennings Bryan asked Sunday to participate in the Scopes Trial. Although Sunday assured Bryan that "all the believing world is back of you in your defense of Christ and the Bible", Sunday declined to come to Dayton. Sunday to Bryan, July 4, 1925, William Jennings Bryan Papers, Library of Congress, Box 47. او همچنین از سرگرمی‌های محبوب طبقه متوسط مانند رقص،"Sunday said that 'three-fourths of all the fallen women fell as a result of the dance.'" Quoted in McLoughlin, 132. Sunday's views were caricatured in P. G. Wodehouse's short story, "The Aunt and the Sluggard" ("My Man Jeeves") in which the fictional revival preacher Jimmy Mundy says that "the tango and the fox-trot were devices of the devil to drag people down into the Bottomless Pit. He said that there was more sin in ten minutes with a negro banjo orchestra than in all the ancient revels of Nineveh and Babylon." ورق بازی، حضور در تئاتر، و خواندن رمانMcLoughlin, 132–135; Firstenberger, 65–66. انتقاد کرد. با این حال، او معتقد بود که بیسبال یک نوع تفریح سالم و حتی میهن پرستانه است، به شرطی که بازی‌ها در روز یکشنبه‌ها انجام نشود.Knickerbocker, 156–157.