For Sacred Summons to work, the subtypes have to exactly match your aura.
So, if you're Lawful Neutral (a Lawful Aura), you can't use Sacred Summons to summon a creature with the lawful, and the good subtypes? The only subtype it can have is Lawful?
Just as if you were Chaotic Good (Chaotic Good aura), you couldn't summon a creature with only the Chaotic subtype?
Is this right?
It probably shouldn't be, but... yes, that's right. Clerics and Warpriest get "a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity's alignment". So just the one Aura. Thus CG Deities confer a CG Aura, not a Chaotic one and a Good one.
Keep in mind your aura depends on your deity and not your alignment.
A cleric of Iomedae who is Lawful Neutral still has a aura of Lawful Good.
I had forgotten about that. If a Lawful aura can summon both Lawful Good and Lawful Evil as a standard action (as I'm hoping, but doubting, that might inspire a whole new build.
Yeah, if you have a lawful aura by worshiping a Lawful Neutral deity you will only be able to use Sacred Summons with entities that are Lawful Neutral.
Remember that a cleric can't cast spells with an alignment descriptor opposed to their alignment or that of their deity, and summon monster used to summon a creature with an alignment subtype becomes such a spell. Neutral creatures have no alignment subtypes. A LG cleric of Sarenrae will be unable to cast spells to summon CG creatures completely. They will be able to summon LG, NG and LN creatures, but only NG will get a boost by Sacred Summons.
By contrast, a NG cleric of Sarenrae will be able to summon LG, NG, CG, LN and CN, and again only NG will be boosted by Sacred Summons. A LG cleric of Iomedae will manage LG, NG and LN, with LG boosted.
In short: For a cleric summoner, choose your deity's alignment.
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I think it would work with anything of the lawful subtype. I don't get a lawful neutral aura, I get a lawful aura. That means that any creature with that subtype perfectly matches. I think that is the fairest interpretation since most are in the extremities otherwise.
Anything of the [lawful] subtype that's not also of the [good] or [evil] subtype.
You correctly state that as a follower of a LN deity you get a Lawful aura, not a Lawful Neutral aura:
Aura (Ex): A cleric of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity's alignment (see the detect evil spell for details).
Likewise, Sacred Summons only cares about non-neutral descriptors:
When using summon monster to summon creatures whose alignment subtype or subtypes exactly match your aura, you may cast the spell as a standard action instead of with a casting time of 1 round.
A Lawful Neutral outsider would have a [lawful] descriptor so it'd respond quickly to a cleric of a Lawful Neutral deity. It wouldn't respond quickly to a cleric of a Lawful Good deity because then it's not an exact match.
A Lawful Good outsider would have [lawful, good] descriptors, so it'd respond quickly to a cleric of a Lawful Good deity. It wouldn't respond quickly to a cleric of a Lawful Neutral deity because then it's not an exact match.
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Nope. You only have the single aura based on your character's deity's alignment.
I don't think you meant it like this, but for completeness, your character has an aura too. Your character's aura is based on their creature type and alignment, the deity aura is also present on the same creature. A Lawful Good human Cleric of a Neutral Good Deity will have a Cleric's Good Aura due to their deity, but they'll also have a fainter aura of Law for being a Lawful human (if they have enough HD).
This aura for their creature type has no effect on Sacred Summons, but it does matter with regard to auras, so I felt it was needed for completeness.