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Situation: A good cleric wants to channel positive for healing, but not hit his enemies. Would the demons be excluded?
Here situational constants:
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1)Good cleric with channel positive energy
2)Cleric is currently on the Abyss (Chaotic Evil)
3)Cleric has the feat Alignment Channel (Evil)
4)Inside the burst radius are 5 enemy tieflings and 2 horned demons.
5)Cleric does not have selective channel
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Using a standard positive energy burst, the text states that you heal all living creature. I would assume this would hit outsiders as well as natives since they are all "Living"(since he is on their native plane, the party are the "outsiders"). Would this be a correct assumption?
To me, it seems the alignment channel is adding a second sub-type to be effected, adding to the Living and Undead group.
The wording of it would seem that if you enter another plane, it would cease to work on said alignment if they are on their home plane.(not outsiders anymore). basically, the use of the word "outsider" seems to put a damper on it if you on another plane.
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FEAT:
Alignment Channel
Choose chaos, evil, good, or law. You can channel divine energy to affect outsiders that possess this subtype.
Prerequisites: Ability to channel energy.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of the chosen alignment subtype. You must make this choice each time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm creatures of the chosen alignment subtype, your channel energy has no effect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise unchanged.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new alignment subtype. Whenever you channel energy, you must choose which type to effect.
When you channel energy to affect outsiders, you do not affect living or undead, you have changed the energy.
Also, You are extraplanar on a plane not your own, not an outsider.
Kierato is correct in what he said.
In your example, the cleric has 4 options:
1) Channel energy to harm undead (no effect from what you listed).
2) Channel energy to heal living creatures (everyone would be healed, including the foes).
3) Channel energy to harm Outsiders with the evil subtype (the two demons would be harmed, the tieflings would not).
4) Channel energy to heal Outsiders with the evil subtype (heal only the two demons).
2 & 3 seem the only real options he has.
Alignment ChannelChoose chaos, evil, good, or law. You can channel divine energy to affect outsiders that possess this subtype.
Prerequisites: Ability to channel energy.
Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of the chosen alignment subtype. You must make this choice each time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm creatures of the chosen alignment subtype, your channel energy has no effect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise unchanged.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take this feat, it applies to a new alignment subtype. Whenever you channel energy, you must choose which type to effect.
Emphasis mine.
The alignment channel happens instead of the normal channel, when you use this feat. You have to choose whether you want to heal or harm the enemies (evil outsiders, in your case) when you use the feat, and it would heal or harm all of the creatures within the channeling burst.
It does not add on the outsider subtype to your normal channel; it replaces it when you use this feat.
An outsider is still an outsider, even if you're on their home plane. "Outsider" isn't so much a description of where a character lives; it's a description of the sort of being they are. For example, if a demon visits Golarion and encounters a human cleric, the cleric isn't an Outsider; she's a Humanoid (human).
Hope any of this helped! :)
I would also like to point you to the part about Alignment subtype, which means that (Assuming you have the right alignment channel feat) it would only affect the horned demons.
Ninja'd by two folks! Wow, I must type slowly . . .